Journal For Virtual Worlds Research


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Vol 11, No 2 (2018): Assembled 2018 Part 2

The second part of Assembled 2018 includes five studies demonstrating rigor over a vast variety of themes tethered to Virtual World use. Studying VR/AR technologies use & development, examining online storytelling forum threads in WoW, analyzing Africans’ representation in video games, investigating business and English classes’ use of Multiplayer-Online Games, and testing the use of a mixed reality environment with undergraduate special education students. This issue has been crafted to meet the expectations of researchers and practitioners.

Table of Contents

Issue Editors' Corner

Editorial
Angie Marie Cox, Edgardo Donovan, Miao Feng, Felipe Nunes
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Peer Reviewed Research Papers

Dreaming the Virtual: How Lucid Dream Practice Can Inform VR Development
Kevin Healey
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Virtual Sense of Community in a World of Warcraft® Storytelling Open Forum Thread
Dean Anthony Fabi Gui
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Representations of Africans in Popular Video Games in the U.S
Rebecca Y. Bayeck, Tutaleni I. Asino, Patricia A. Young
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Gaming the Performance: Massively Multiplayer Online Games and Performance Outcomes in English and Business Courses
Papia Bawa, Sunnie Lee Watson, William Watson
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Mixed-Reality Teaching Experiences Improve Preservice Special Education Students’ Perceptions of their Ability to Manage a Classroom
Melissa E. Hudson, Karen S. Voytecki, Guili Zhang
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