Journal For Virtual Worlds Research
Issue Editors: Yesha Sivan, Metaverse Labs and the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel; Robert Bloomfield, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, USA; Jean H.A. Gelissen, Philips Research, Netherlands
This issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is part of an effort to explore the fields of standards for virtual worlds. Working on such standards is both a technical and conceptual. This issue endeavors to enhance, explicate, and analyze various aspects of standards and virtual worlds, and was designed to give a voice to the leading theoretical and practical players within this arena. The issue specifically emphasizes the disciplines of economy and technology as critical harbingers to the endeavor of standards.
Table of Contents
Issue Editors' Corner
| Overview: State of Virtual Worlds Standards in 2009 | |
| Yesha Y. Sivan |
Invited Articles
| Virtual Worlds, Collaboratively Built | |
| Philip Rosendale |
| World of Bizcraft | |
| Robert Bloomfield |
| Introduction to MPEG-V | |
| Jean H.A. Gelissen |
| Real Standards for Virtual Worlds – Why and How? | |
| Kai Jakobs |
“Think Pieces”
| Supporting Soundscape Design in Virtual Environments with Content-based Audio Retrieval | |
| Jordi Janer |
| On the creation of standards for interaction between real robots and virtual worlds. | |
| Alex Juarez, Christoph Bartneck, Lou Feijs |
| Universal Design for Virtual Worlds | |
| Alice Krueger, Ann Ludwig, David Ludwig |
| Lindman Design - Virtual World Experiences | |
| Ludvaig Lindman |
| Barriers to Efficient Virtual Business Transactions | |
| ArminasX Saiman |
| Content Level Gateway for Virtual Worlds | |
| Marc Van den Broeck, Sigurd Van Broeck, David Zhe Lou |
| Virtual World Interoperability: Let Use Cases Drive Design | |
| Jon Watte |
Peer Reviewed Research Papers
| Immersive 3D environments and Multilinguality: A Non-Intrusive and Dynamic e-learning-Oriented Scenario based on Textual Information | |
| Samuel Cruz-Lara, Nadia Bellalem, Lotfi Bellalem, Tarik Osswald |
| Payback of Mining Activities Within Entropia Universe | |
| Markus Falk, Daniel M Besemann, James Michael Bosson |
| An Experiment in Using Virtual Worlds for Scientific Visualization of Self-Gravitating Systems | |
| Will Meierjurgen Farr, Piet Hut, Jeff Ames, Adam Johnson |
| Synthetic Excellence: Standards, Play, and Unintended Outcomes | |
| D. Linda Garcia, Garrison LeMasters |
| The role of interoperability in virtual worlds, analysis of the specific cases of avatars | |
| Blagica Jovanova, marius Preda, Françoise Preteux |
| Measuring aggregate production in a virtual economy using log data | |
| Tuukka Lehtiniemi |
| Another Endless November: AOL, WoW, and the Corporatization of a Niche Market | |
| Ray Op'tLand |
| Order and Creativity in Virtual Worlds | |
| Evan W Osborne, Shu Z Schiller |
| Standardization in Virtual Worlds: Formation of Hope and Fear | |
| Marco Otte |
| Machine Ethics for Gambling in the Metaverse: an “EthiCasino” | |
| Anna Vartapetiance Salmasi, Lee Gillam |
| Virtual Chironomia: Developing Standards for Non-verbal Communication in Virtual Worlds | |
| Gustav Verhulsdonck, Jacquelyn Ford Morie |
| Piracy vs Control: Various Models of Virtual World Governance and their impact on Player Experience | |
| Melissa de Zwart |
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