Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Gita Sukthankar Edited by Kiran Lakkaraju

ISBN 10: 110712882X / ISBN 13: 9781107128828

Editore: Cambridge University Press 05/07/2018, 2018

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Riassunto:

This cross-disciplinary exploration of MMOs and other complex online worlds melds work from computer science, psychology and social science.

Informazioni sugli autori: Kiran Lakkaraju is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Sandia National Laboratories Cognitive Science and Applications group, New Mexico. His primary research interests lie in computational models of behavior change in society and exploring links between social and cognitive structures in problems of information dissemination and attitude change. His current work revolves around developing online social experiments through the Controlled, large online social experimentation platform.

Gita Sukthankar is Associate Professor and Charles N. Millican Faculty Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF), and an affiliate faculty member at UCF's Institute for Simulation and Training. Her research focuses on multiagent systems and computational social models. She received an Air Force Young Investigator award and an NSF CAREER award. She served on DARPA's Computer Science Study Panel and is currently a member of DARPA's Information Science and Technology study group and the board of directors of IFAAMAS.

Rolf T. Wigand is Maulden-Entergy Chair and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Information Science and Business Information Systems at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is the past director of the Syracuse University Graduate Program in Information Management and their Center for Digital Commerce. His research focuses on software standards development and collective action in the mortgage, automotive, and RFID industries, development of trust and leadership in virtual organizations, the analysis of social networks in disaster situations, and novel methods for analysis and tracking of collective action on social media.

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Titolo: Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds: An ...
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press 05/07/2018
Data di pubblicazione: 2018
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good