Virtual worlds as collaborative innovation and knowledge platform

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1003-1012

  Füller, Johann ^a   Matzler, Kurt ^a   Müller, Julia ^b   Hautz, Julia ^a   Hutter, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; USER INTERFACES;

COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION; INNOVATION PROCESS; MEDIA RICHNESS; PLATFORM STABILITY; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SECURITY ISSUES; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84857982253     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2012.636     Document Type: Conference Paper

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