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Virtual world

Known as: Virtual city, On-world, 3D web 
A virtual world or massively multiplayer online world (MMOW) is a computer-based simulated environment populated by many users who can create a… 
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Second Life in higher education: Assessing the potential for and the barriers to deploying virtual worlds in learning and teaching
  • S. Warburton
  • British Journal of Educational Technology
  • 2009
  • Corpus ID: 597339
Second Life (SL) is currently the most mature and popular multi-user virtual world platform being used in education. Through an… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Three-dimensional virtual worlds and distance learning: two case studies of Active Worlds as a medium for distance education
Online three-dimensional (3D) virtual worlds are emerging technologies that offer unique learning opportunities for traditional… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Simulated Experiments: Methodology for a Virtual World
This paper examines the relationship between simulation and experiment. Many discussions of simulation, and indeed the term… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Living Digitally: Embodiment in Virtual Worlds
In effect, I suppose I was unknowingly using my second reality as a social experiment and it has become very much a learning… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Conversation and Community: Chat in a Virtual World
From the Publisher: Conversation and Community: Discourse in a Social MUD is an examination of the Speech community in an… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Virtualized Reality: Constructing Virtual Worlds from Real Scenes
A new visual medium, Virtualized Reality, immerses viewers in a virtual reconstruction of real-world events. The Virtualized… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Wayfinding strategies and behaviors in large virtual worlds
People have severe problems wayfinding in large virtual worlds. However, current implementations of virtual worlds provide little… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Virtual reality on a WIM: interactive worlds in miniature
This paper explores a user interface technique which augments an immersive head tracked display with a hand-held miniature copy… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Virtual Worlds as Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
Fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM) can structure virtual worlds that change with time. An FCM links causal events, actors, values, goals… 
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
Toward a Definition of “Virtual Worlds”
This is a brief essay, we call "think-pieces", designed to stimulate a discussion on a particular topic. The topic for this… 
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