Thursday, September 11, 2014

New Media: Virtual World research networks

http://www.vwobservatory.com/wp/
Virtual World research

Who We Are
The VWO team consists of experienced social scientists and computer scientists from Northwestern University, University of Southern California, University of Illinois, and University of Minnesota.


What We Do
Our team studies various kinds of online communities and video games. We seek to uncover and model the intricacies of human behaviors and interactions.


How We Do It
In collaboration with our industry and government sponsors and partners, our team conducts systematic studies of human behaviors by using social network analysis and data mining techniques.


Acknowledgement
The funding for Virtual Worlds Observatory comes from following sources (grants):

  • National Science Foundation (IIS 0841583, CNS-1010904, OCI-0904356)
  • Army Research Institute (W91WAW-08-C-0106)
  • Air Force Research Laboratory (FA8650-10-C-7010)
  • Army Research Laboratory (W911NF-09-2-0053)


We work with a variety of digital, social data from all varieties of games, such as…
  • EVE Online
  • League of Legends
  • Chevalier’s Romance 3
  • Dragon’s Nest
  • Everquest 2
  • Second Life

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