The JVWR, Volume 6, No. 1
Published: April 29, 2013
The editorial team for this issue includes:
Leonel Morgado, INESC TEC (formerly INESC Porto), UTAD – University of Trás-os-Montes Alto Douro
Nelson Zagalo, University of Minho, Portugal
In this issue, you will find selected papers from Slactions 2012 as well as other papers from 2012.
Papers about: Language Learning Anxiety, Management Practice in virtual worlds (AKA vManagement), Weight Management for Young People, The Effect of Group Influence on Individual Choices (recap of the Asch’s 1951 experiment), Technical setup of OpenSimulator, and Virtual Archaeology.
Original Call: CFP: General Call for Papers
Managing Editor Corner
Welcome to the First Issue of 2013
Yesha Y. Sivan
Research Papers
Language Learning in Virtual Worlds: The Role of Foreign Language and Technical Anxiety
Scott John Grant, Hui Huang, Sarah E. Pasfield-Neofitou
Susan Wurtz, Dale Cyphert, Leslie K. Duclos
Virtual Worlds as a Tool to Facilitate Weight Management for Young People
Michael James Taylor, Dave Taylor, Myutan Kulendran, Paul Gately, Ara Darzi
Rebecca Rayburn-Reeves, Jennifer Wu, Sara Wilson, Beth Kraemer, and Philipp Kraemer
Architecting Scalable Academic Virtual World Grids: A Case Utilizing OpenSimulator
Charles J. Lesko, Yolanda A. Hollingsworth
Virtual Archaeology in Second Life and OpenSimulator
Luís Miguel Sequeira, Leonel Morgado
