From Technology Engineering to Social Engineering: 15 Years of Research on Virtual Worlds

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 11-16

  Jäkälä, Mikko ^a   Pekkola, Samuli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Computer Mediated Communication; Human Factors; Human Computer Interaction; Immersion; Research Agenda; Telepresence; Virtual Reality; Virtual Worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961506174     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1314234.1314238     Document Type: Article

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