The JVWR, Volume 2, No. 3
Published: October 16, 2009
The editorial team for this issue includes:
Yesha Sivan, Metaverse Labs and the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel
Robert Bloomfield, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, USA
Jean H.A. Gelissen, Philips Research, Netherlands
This issue is part of an effort to explore the fields of standards for virtual worlds. Working on such standards is both technical and conceptual. This issue endeavors to enhance, explicate, and analyze various aspects of standards and virtual worlds, and was designed to give a voice to the leading theoretical and practical players within this arena.
The issue specifically emphasizes the disciplines of economy and technology as critical harbingers to the endeavor of standards.
Original call: CfP: Technology, Economy and Standards
Issue Editor′s Corner
Overview: State of Virtual Worlds Standards in 2009
Yesha Y. Sivan
Invited Articles
Virtual Worlds, Collaboratively Built
Philip Rosendale
Robert Bloomfield
Jean H.A. Gelissen
Real Standards for Virtual Worlds – Why and How? Kai Jakobs
“Think Pieces”
Supporting Soundscape Design in Virtual Environments with Content-based Audio Retrieval
Jordi Janer
On the creation of standards for interaction between real robots and virtual worlds.
Alex Juarez, Christoph Bartneck, Lou Feijs
Universal Design for Virtual Worlds
Alice Krueger, Ann Ludwig, David Ludwig
Lindman Design – Virtual World Experiences
Ludvaig Lindman
Barriers to Efficient Virtual Business Transactions
ArminasX Saiman
Content Level Gateway for Virtual Worlds
Marc Van den Broeck, Sigurd Van Broeck, David Zhe Lou
Virtual World Interoperability: Let Use Cases Drive Design
Jon Watte
Peer Reviewed Research Papers
Samuel Cruz-Lara, Nadia Bellalem, Lotfi Bellalem, Tarik Osswald
Payback of Mining Activities Within Entropia Universe
Markus Falk, Daniel M Besemann, James Michael Bosson
An Experiment in Using Virtual Worlds for Scientific Visualization of Self-Gravitating Systems
Will Meierjurgen Farr, Piet Hut, Jeff Ames, Adam Johnson
Synthetic Excellence: Standards, Play, and Unintended Outcomes
D. Linda Garcia, Garrison LeMasters
Order and Creativity in Virtual Worlds
Evan W Osborne, Shu Z Schiller
The role of interoperability in virtual worlds, analysis of the specific cases of avatars
Blagica Jovanova, marius Preda, Françoise Preteux
Measuring aggregate production in a virtual economy using log data
Tuukka Lehtiniemi
Another Endless November: AOL, WoW, and the Corporatization of a Niche Market
Ray Op’tLand
Standardization in Virtual Worlds: Formation of Hope and Fear
Marco Otte
Machine Ethics for Gambling in the Metaverse: an “EthiCasino”
Anna Vartapetiance Salmasi, Lee Gillam
Virtual Chironomia: Developing Standards for Non-verbal Communication in Virtual Worlds
Gustav Verhulsdonck, Jacquelyn Ford Morie
Piracy vs Control: Various Models of Virtual World Governance and their impact on Player Experience
Melissa de Zwart
