Journal For Virtual Worlds Research
Issue Editors: Paulette Robinson, National Defense University, USA; Michael Piller, National Defense University, USA.This issue includes articles from the 2010 Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds Conference including a review of potential usages for government, military and business organizations; the case of the Swedish Embassy in SL; the criminal justice system and a "think piece" on unconstrained global citizens. The issue highlights some of the unique dimensions of Virtual Wolds that relate to governments & military.
Table of Contents
Research Papers
| Applied Virtual Environments: Applications of Virtual Environments to Government, Military and Business Organizations | |
| Patrick D. Allen, Chris C. Demchak |
| Virtual Nation Branding: the Swedish Embassy in Second Life | |
| Stina Bengtsson |
| MuniGov 2.0, A New Residency Requirement: Local Government Professionals in Second Life | |
| Ines A Mergel, Michelle Gardner, Pamela Broviak, William Greeves |
| Virtual Reality and the Criminal Justice System: New Possibilities for Research, Training, and Rehabilitation | |
| Bobbie Ticknor, Sherry Tillinghast |
Research-in-brief papers
| Avatars and Security Clearances: How can we reconcile the two? | |
| Michael P Cummins |
| Two Navy Virtual World Collaboration Applications: Rapid Prototyping and Concept of Operations Experimentation | |
| Douglas Maxwell, Steven Aguiar, Philip Monte, Diana Nolan |
| Creating a VW Killer App for the Department of Defense | |
| Roger Smith |
“Think Pieces”
| Avatars as the First Manifestation of Geo-politically Unconstrained Global Citizens | |
| Randy J. Hinrichs |
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