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Ages of avatar: community building for inhabited television

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Claire-Janine Brazier,

Amanda Oldroyd,

Tim ReganAuthors Info & Claims

CVE '00: Proceedings of the third international conference on Collaborative virtual environments

Pages 189 - 194

https://doi.org/10.1145/351006.351040

Published: 01 September 2000 Publication History

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In this paper we describe and analyse the community building process for Ages of Avatar, a set of on-line Collaborative Virtual Environments created in MicrosoftVirtual Worlds, which form part of an ongoing experiment in Inhabited Television, aiming to merge CVEs and broadcast media. We describe the means by which the CVEs were launched, promoted and supported alongside a television broadcast channel, and how actions of viewers acting as inhabitants in the CVE can be used to provide broadcast material. We explain how the world content and their super-structure were managed to encourage the growth of a community over a short period of time. Using logs of activities in the worlds we deduce some of the characteristics of the community which was formed.

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Ages of avatar: community building for inhabited television
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Mixed / augmented reality
      2. Virtual reality

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CVE '00: Proceedings of the third international conference on Collaborative virtual environments

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DOI:10.1145/351006

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