Interaction and space in the virtual world of Second Life

Berger, Manuel; Jucker, Andreas H.; Locher, Miriam A.

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2016.05.009

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“…A good match between the avatar and one's real looks helps the user to identify with one's avatar [40]. This in turn helps the user to function authentically and well through the avatar [41]. In designing avatars, users often idealize and complement their own physical features by adding to it details they lack in their physical body.…”

Section: Interaction With Avatar At the 3d Virtual Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Events during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The User Preferences of VirBELA Virtual 3D Platform at the SHIFT Event Organized in Finland

Jauhiainen

2021

Sustainability

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The COVID-19 pandemic brought abrupt changes for international events that promote entrepreneurship and innovation. Usually, such events bring together thousands of participants to provide them with information about ongoing and emerging trends in their fields, to network with old and new colleagues and get ideas that can develop into innovations. In 2020, most such events were cancelled. Few events were organized virtually, that is without participants physically coming together. Compared with physical face-to-face events, virtual events reduce the travel-related emissions and consumption, thereby supporting sustainability. This article studies the SHIFT entrepreneurship and innovation event held virtually in October 2020 and organized in Finland. For this article, the author gathered data about user preferences from surveying participants, speakers, presenters and organizers, almost all of whom were first-time users of VirBELA’s 3D virtual platform. Furthermore, participant observation and interviews via avatars were conducted during the event. At the virtual event, 68% of respondents talked with former acquaintances, and 68% also talked with new acquaintances, and 53% opinioned that using the virtual platform can support the emergence of innovations. Virtual entrepreneurship and innovation events have potential to support networking, novel ideas and thus innovations, but issues of trust and confidentiality arose concerns among some participants.

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Section: Interaction With Avatar At the 3d Virtual Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Events during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The User Preferences of VirBELA Virtual 3D Platform at the SHIFT Event Organized in Finland

Jauhiainen

2021

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“…Accordingly, due to the limited body language nature in SL, e.g., signaling to a student or making eye contact, the teachers need to address their learners by calling out the avatars' names. Berger et al [32] reported that their students seldom used body language or eye contact when chatting in SL. To compensate for this, they tend to use other strategies like calling out names in the chat window.…”

Section: Language Training In Sl Vlementioning

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“…To compensate for this, they tend to use other strategies like calling out names in the chat window. They conclude that "Interaction takes place in a spatial context and in many ways is influenced or shaped by this context … In online virtual worlds, the spatial context of interaction has to be graphically recreated" [32].…”

Section: Language Training In Sl Vlementioning

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Effectiveness of Second Life Virtual Learning Environment for Language Training in Hospitality and Tourism

Vu¹,

Linh²,

Van³

et al. 2021

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) systems have been widely used in higher education as an effective e-learning platform. With its large user community and virtual facilities in various disciplines, including education, recreation, tourism, business, etc. Second Life (SL) has become one of the most dominant VLE systems for hospitality and tourism training. With better student devices and a faster internet connection, language education in Vietnam recently saw soaring interest in using SL for training, especially in an ESP area like English for hospitality and tourism. However, there is still very little research on the effectiveness of SL VLE for language training in hospitality and tourism. This fifteen-week quasi-experimental study was conducted on two classes (n = 81) in order to investigate the effectiveness of SL VLE for language training in hospitality and tourism with a focus on speaking skills. The instruments included English speaking tests, an attitudinal questionnaire, and a semi-structured interview. The findings of the study indicated that language training activities in SL positively contributed to students' language proficiency progress. Besides, students have positive perceptions about the use of SL VLE in their training. It is recommended that language training programs in hospitality and tourism make more substantial use of virtual restaurants, hotels, resorts, and entertainment places in SL to enrich students' learning experience. Hospitality and tourism training institutions should spend resources on formal SL VLE training for teachers and students and build their SL facilities.

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“…They navigate through a three-dimensional world of buildings and objects created by the users. 8 In contrast to many other Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs), there are no tasks or objectives for the residents, who are free to pursue their own interests, to interact with other residents, organise events such as parties, lectures, discussion circles and so on (see Boellstorff 2008;Abdullah 2015;Brookey and Cannon 2009;Locher et al 2015;Berger et al 2016). The case study presented here is taken from an exploratory study carried out in 2009 and 2010 and presented in some detail in Berger et al (2016).…”

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Doing space in face-to-face interaction and on interactive multimodal platforms

Jucker

Hausendorf

Dürscheid

et al. 2018

Journal of Pragmatics

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In this article, we argue that the spatial environment of everyday interaction has to be understood as a social construct. Co-participants in an interaction make use of the spatial affordances of the interactional architecture around them, and at the same time they interactionally create and maintain spatial configurations. In that sense, they can be argued to be "doing space". Concerning face-to-face interaction, we distinguish between heavily structured material settings that are custom-built for specific types of institutionalized interactions, such as lecture theatres, assembly halls or service encounters; moderately structured settings, such as restaurants, staff rooms or museums; and weakly structured settings, such as public town squares or other settings which provide only minimal assumptions about the interactions that may take place there and their spatial configurations. We extend this analysis to different forms of interaction on interactive multimodal platforms (IMP), where the complexities increase with the different spatial levels of the physical computer screen, the many different spatial levels depicted there, and the increasing difficulties for the interactants to navigate and negotiate the different levels of doing space.

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Interaction and space in the virtual world of Second Life

Cited by 25 publications

References 9 publications

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Events during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The User Preferences of VirBELA Virtual 3D Platform at the SHIFT Event Organized in Finland

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Events during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The User Preferences of VirBELA Virtual 3D Platform at the SHIFT Event Organized in Finland

Effectiveness of Second Life Virtual Learning Environment for Language Training in Hospitality and Tourism

Doing space in face-to-face interaction and on interactive multimodal platforms

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