Vol. 2 No. 5 (2009): The Metaverse Assembled

Issue Editors: Hanan Gazit, MetaverSense Ltd and H.I.T-Holon, Institute of Technology, Israel; D. Linda Garcia, Georgetown University, USA; Garrison LeMasters, Georgetown University, USA; Leonel Morgado, UTAD, Portugal.

This issue features the best papers from the SLACTIONS 2009 conference, as well as papers sumbitted directly to the Journal.

Published: 2010-06-11

SLACTIONS 2009 Selected Papers

Who am I - and if so, where? A Study on Personality in Virtual Realities

Benjamin Gregor Aas, Katharina Meyerbr, Paul M. G. Emmelkamp
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Digital Guqin Museum from a Virtual World to the Real World : Conception and design of an ongoing cultural sim

Shuen-git Chow
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Second Life Unplugged: A Design for Fostering At-risk Students' STEM Agency

Sneha Veeragoudar Harrell, Dor Abrahamson
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Building Knowledge in the Virtual World

Ana Loureiro, Teresa Bettencourt
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Metaverse: Building Affective Systems and Its Digital Morphologies in Virtual Environments

Donizetti Louro, Tania Fraga, Maur Pontuschka
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Brands and Consumption in Virtual Worlds

Ioanna Nikolaou
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A Second Life First Year Experience

Paul Penfold, Peter Duffy
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Some Remarks on Ontological-Cognitive Structures in the Metaverse

Luis Carlos Petry
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ArchHouseGenerator

Nuno Rodrigues, Lu Magalh, Jo Moura, Alan Chalmers, Filipe Santos, Leonel Morgado
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The Ontological Aspects of Puzzles into Metaverses

Cristiano Natal Ton, Lu Petry
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Peer Reviewed Research Papers

The effects of Avatars

Domna Banakou, Konstantinos Chorianopoulos
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Evaluating Participation in an International Bilingual Virtual World Educational Intervention for Youth

Laura Beals, Marina Umaschi Bers
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Compounding the Results: The Integration of Virtual Worlds with the Semantic Web

Charles J. Lesko, Yolanda A. Hollingsworth
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Staging the New Retail Drama: at a Metaverse near you!

Savvas Papagiannidis, Michael Bourlakis
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Producing knowledge in collaborative research about virtual worlds: discursive constructions of Second Life

Louise Jane Phillips
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My Second Life as a Cyber Border Crosser

Carleen D. Sanchez
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Essays

Trucking Towards a Virtual World: The Development and Implementation of FMCSA

Adam Schlicht
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Assembled (rush to press papers)

Culture of the Cloud

Tom Boellstorff
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ExtSim: A Flexible Data Mapping and Synchronization Middleware for Scientific Visualization in Virtual Worlds

Johan Berntsson, Norman Lin, Zoltan Dezso
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The Effects of Avatar Appearance in Virtual Worlds

Nicholas Merola, Jorge Pe
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Vol. 2 No. 5 (2009): The Metaverse Assembled

SLACTIONS 2009 Selected Papers

Who am I - and if so, where? A Study on Personality in Virtual Realities

Digital Guqin Museum from a Virtual World to the Real World : Conception and design of an ongoing cultural sim

Second Life Unplugged: A Design for Fostering At-risk Students' STEM Agency

Building Knowledge in the Virtual World

Metaverse: Building Affective Systems and Its Digital Morphologies in Virtual Environments

Brands and Consumption in Virtual Worlds

A Second Life First Year Experience

Some Remarks on Ontological-Cognitive Structures in the Metaverse

ArchHouseGenerator

The Ontological Aspects of Puzzles into Metaverses

Peer Reviewed Research Papers

The effects of Avatars

Evaluating Participation in an International Bilingual Virtual World Educational Intervention for Youth

Compounding the Results: The Integration of Virtual Worlds with the Semantic Web

Staging the New Retail Drama: at a Metaverse near you!

Producing knowledge in collaborative research about virtual worlds: discursive constructions of Second Life

My Second Life as a Cyber Border Crosser

Essays

Trucking Towards a Virtual World: The Development and Implementation of FMCSA

The Essence of Virtuality: Exploring the Digital Body

Implications for Virtual Worlds: A Comparative Study of United Kingdom, United States and Australia on Network Readiness, Government Investment and Cyber-security.

Assembled (rush to press papers)

Culture of the Cloud

ExtSim: A Flexible Data Mapping and Synchronization Middleware for Scientific Visualization in Virtual Worlds

The Effects of Avatar Appearance in Virtual Worlds

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