The 'out-of-avatar experience': Object-focused collaboration in Second Life

ECSCW 2009 - Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 323-342

  Wadley, Greg ^a   Ducheneaut, Nicolas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

3-D ENVIRONMENTS; CAMERA MOVEMENT; COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; FOCUS OF ATTENTION; IMMERSIVE SYSTEM; INTERNET BASED; SECOND LIFE; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84255215887     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84882-854-4_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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