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Item Details
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ONLINE WORLDS: CONVERGENCE OF THE REAL AND THE VIRTUAL
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| By: |
William Sims Bainbridge (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£109.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1848828241 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781848828247 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER LONDON LTD |
| Pub. date: |
17 December, 2009 |
| Series: |
Human-Computer Interaction Series |
| Pages: |
318 |
| Description: |
Virtual worlds are on the rise, and they involve more than just playing games. This book examines the phenomena of virtual worlds, using a range of theories and methodologies to discover the principles that make them so popular. |
| Synopsis: |
William Sims Bainbridge Virtual worlds are persistent online computer-generated environments where people can interact, whether for work or play, in a manner comparable to the real world. The most prominent current example is World of Warcraft (Corneliussen and Rettberg 2008), a massively multiplayer online game with 11 million s- scribers. Some other virtual worlds, notably Second Life (Rymaszewski et al. 2007), are not games at all, but Internet-based collaboration contexts in which people can create virtual objects, simulated architecture, and working groups. Although interest in virtual worlds has been growing for at least a dozen years, only today it is possible to bring together an international team of highly acc- plished authors to examine them with both care and excitement, employing a range of theories and methodologies to discover the principles that are making virtual worlds increasingly popular and may in future establish them as a major sector of human-centered computing. |
| Illustrations: |
46 Tables, color; 8 Tables, black and white; 4 Illustrations, color; 4 |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Springer London Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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