Journal For Virtual Worlds Research
Issue Editor: Jeremiah Spence, University of Texas at Austin, USA
This issue presents peer reviewed papers on research methodologies and case studies of how the particular methods are being developed and used in virtual worlds research both in the academy and industry.
Editor's note: This is the 2nd part of the Issue "The Researcher's Toolbox" (Part I v3(i1) which due to the quantity and quality of the articles submitted had to be devided.
Table of Contents
Peer Reviewed Research Papers
| Synthesizing Presence: A Multidisciplinary Review of the Literature | |
| Dennis Beck, Paul Fishwick, Rasha Kamhawi, Amy Jo Coffey, Julie Henderson |
| Collecting conversations: three approaches to obtaining user-to-user communications data from virtual environments | |
| Mika Lehdonvirta, Vili Lehdonvirta, Akira Baba |
| Developing an Obesity Prevention Intervention in Virtual Worlds: The International Health Challenge in Second Life | |
| Sameer Siddiqi, Scherezade K. Mama, Rebecca E. Lee |
Research Papers
| Design Principles for Doing Business on Second Life: an immersive ethnographic study | |
| Reza Azeharie, Ravi Shankar Sharma |
| Virtual Assisted Self Interviewing (VASI): An Expansion of Survey Data Collection Methods to Virtual Worlds by Means of VDCI | |
| Mark W. Bell, Edward Castronova, Gert G. Wagner |
| Third Places Take First Place in Second Life: Developing a Scale to Measure the ‘Stickiness’ of Virtual World Sites. | |
| Wade Halvorson |
| Methodology of a Novel Virtual Phenomenology Interview Technique | |
| Ronald M. Knorr, Stephen C. Bronack, Deborah M. Switzer, Lienne F. Medford |
Research-in-brief papers
| Virtual Worlds Come Of Age | |
| Stuart Barnes |
| Summative Assessment in Second Life: A Case Study | |
| Remy Olasoji, Stephanie Henderson-Begg |
“Think Pieces”
| Massively Multi-Player Online Role Playing Games: What’s the Risk? | |
| Benjamin Sanders, Steven Furnell, Paul Dowland, Shirley Atkinson |
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