Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual

318 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Human–Computer Interaction Series
• Themen: Informatik und Informationstechnologie Informatik Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
• ISBN: 9781848828247
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.12.2009
• Größe: 23.5 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: Springer London
• Herausgegeben von: William Sims Bainbridge