multi-user virtual worlds
Virtual Worlds and the 3D Web – time for convergence?
... Abstract. Multi-User Virtual Worlds (MUVW) such as Open Wonderland and OpenSim have proved to be fruitful platforms for innovative educational prac- tice, supporting exploratory learning and ...
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Virtual machines for virtual worlds
... Abstract: Multi User Virtual Worlds provide a simulated immersive 3D environment that is similar to the real ...The multi-user nature of these simulations means that there are ...
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Application areas of multi-user virtual environments in the healthcare context
... these virtual worlds were used for evaluating a particular proficiency in specific groups such as nurses and sergeants, assessing of safety in specific environments, measuring of the factors in emergency ...
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Managed Learning in 3D Multi User Virtual Environments
... a virtual world using Open Simulator, to examine its appropriateness as a learning ...self-hosting virtual worlds with local administration and ...most virtual world clients which are ...
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An evaluation of user support strategies for managed learning in a multi user virtual environment
... the user guide document for training new ...the user guide document for basic ...SL user guide ...avatar user credentials have to be added to the document. The Open Virtual ...
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Virtual Worlds for Student Engagement
... provide Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE) or virtual world which afford a contex- tual embodied experience and have the potential to offer stu- dent engagement aligned with real-world ...
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The reality of authentic learning in virtual worlds
... City Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE), which was developed in 2000 to teach middle school students how to conduct a scientific investiga- tion with topics relevant to biological and ...
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The reality of authentic learning in virtual worlds
... in virtual worlds are not new but have existed for some time, and have been used in education in some form for well over two decades (Mikropoulos & Natsis, ...networked virtual reality ...
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Multi-agent evolutionary systems for the generation of complex virtual worlds
... previous user selection was ...the user seemed to enjoy the interactive process more, once the agent was engaged, could prove to be a valuable ...the user experience of Interactive Evolutionary ...
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Facilitating immersion, engagement and flow in multi-user virtual environments
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Augmented learning roads for internet routing
... open virtual worlds to provide a multi-user interactive learning environment for Internet routing which exemplifies the capabilities of emerging immersive education technologies to augment ...
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Understanding the evolutional path of integrated virtual worlds based on Symbiosis Theory
... of virtual world’s integration is defined as a certain relationship between among all the upstream and downstream companies in integrated virtual world ...integrated virtual worlds, symbiotic ...
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Virtual worlds for learning: done and dusted?
... of virtual worlds for teaching and ...fanfare, virtual worlds have failed to gain significant traction in higher ...why virtual worlds have not been adopted for learning and ...
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Adaptive network traffic management for multi user virtual environments
... direction. User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packets were sent over the test network to determine if the change in sending rate was a result of the congestion control system in TCP or processing limits in the ...
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A Computational Model of Suspense in Virtual Worlds
... The spaceship story consists of a story world defined using the Longbow planner, action operators corresponding to various actions that can be performed by the protagonist of the story, [r] ...
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Learners' experience of presence in virtual worlds
... to virtual worlds (unless they have a predominant gaming ...that virtual worlds demand much of their users from the start, and often the challenge exceeds their skill ...non-game ...
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WorldFinder: A tool for finding Virtual Worlds
... the user has to reformulate their query. A query that the user is not entirely sure about in the first ...With virtual worlds this might be less of a problem, a user will likely have an ...
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Becoming virtual: Bodies, technologies, worlds
... I would argue that it also opens up our understanding of technologies as fundamentally political practices; the networks of practice in virtual realities involves the construction of sel[r] ...
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Gender differences in navigating virtual worlds
... The data collected were time taken, number of wrong turns, number of references to map, number of times the subject got lost, ease of handling the wand, strategies used, level of navigat[r] ...
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Sustaining the future through virtual worlds
... and multi-modal enrolments (study units taken partially internally and partially externally) rose from 4% to ...while multi-modal enrolments rose from 10% to ...
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