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Title: | Controlling and Assisting Activities in Social Virtual Worlds |
Author: | Rodríguez Santiago, Inmaculada Puig Puig, Anna Esteva, M. |
Keywords: | Web Sistemes virtuals (Informàtica) World Wide Web Virtual computer systems |
Issue Date: | Mar-2010 |
Publisher: | IntechOpen |
Abstract: | Since its beginning, web technology has advanced from a text-based to a visual-based interaction. This evolution has been facilitated by both high speed internet connections and PC's graphical power. Virtual world (VW) technology began as standalone applications (e.g.. virtual simulations) but soon evolved into web-based applications. Nowadays, home users for entertainment and wide-spread enterprises or institutions for business can exploit virtual worlds to develop remote activities between friends, employees, clients, teachers or students (Sherman, 2002). Then, virtual worlds have clear applications in e-governance, elearning and e-commerce, and therefore it is mandatory to study mechanisms ensuring the assistance and the control of activities taking place in these applications... |
Note: | Reprodució del document publicat a: http://doi.org/10.5772/8371 |
It is part of: | Chapter 2 in: Usmani, Zeeshan-Ul-Hassan. 2010x. Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agents. IntechOpen. ISBN: 978-953-7619-85-5. DOI: 10.5772/179. pp: 13-26. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/178263 |
Related resource: | http://doi.org/10.5772/8371 |
Appears in Collections: | Llibres / Capítols de llibre (Matemàtiques i Informàtica) |
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