Being There Together: Social Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments

by Ralph Schroeder

Virtual environments provide places for 'being there together', for avatars to interact with each other in computer-generated spaces. They range from immersive systems in which people have life-size tracked avatar bodies to large-scale spaces such as Second Life where populations of users socialize in persistent virtual worlds. This book draws together research on how people interact in virtual environments: What difference does avatar appearance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195371283
• ISBN13: 9780195371284
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"