A design for researching virtual worlds-Opportunities and limitations

Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1380-1387

  Chesney, Thomas ^a   Coyne, Iain ^a   Logan, Brain ^a   Madden, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUS GROUPS; KNOWLEDGE SHARING COMMUNITIES; PRIVACY CONCERNS; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; SECOND LIFE; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84869467853     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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