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Erik Stolterman
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Today virtual worlds are gaining in popularity on the Internet. A virtual
world is a digitally designed arena that supports the emergence of societies.
Important factors to how these societies will function are (often implicitly)
designed into the technology on which the worlds are based. Juridical,
social and economical rules of the societies are coded into the system.
We foresee a continued increase of the importance
of virtual worlds as arenas for social interaction and are therefore
interested in studying social consequences of design decisions on the
technological level. We have chosen an active explorative method where
we participate in the ongoing development and design of these new societies
to first of all increase our understanding of the phenomena, and then
also try to give some advice on how to design virtual worlds that fit
into, and offer something positive to, our existing societal structures.
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Mikael
Jakobsson
PhD Student
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mjson
Duke of Nothing
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| Jakobsson,
Mikael (2003). A virtual realist primer to virtual world design. In Ehn,
Pelle & Löwgren, Jonas (eds.). Searching voices - towards a canon
for interaction design. Studies in Arts and Communication #01. Malmö:
Malmö University. Book chapter [PDF]
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| Jakobsson,
Mikael (2002). From architecture to interacture. Internet Research 3.0:
Net / Work / Theory. Conference paper [PDF]
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| Jakobsson,
Mikael (2002). Rest in peace, Bill the bot. Death and life in virtual worlds.
In Schroeder, Ralph (ed.). The social life of avatars. Presence and interaction
in shared virtual environments. London: Springer. Book
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| Jakobsson,
Mikael (1999). Why Bill was killed - understanding social interaction in
virtual worlds. In Nijholt, A. et al. (eds.). Interactions in virtual worlds.
Proceedings of the fifteenth Twente workshop on language technology. Enschede,
The Netherlands: Twente University. Conference
paper [HTML
Abstract] [PDF]
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| Jakobsson,
Mikael (1997). Context Without Borders. Working
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Mikael (1997). Studying Net-Life. Techniques and considerations. Working
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| Stolterman,
Erik & Mikael Jakobsson (1997). Nya arenor för social interaktion.
En studie av virtuella miljöer. Funding
application in Swedish [HTML] [PDF]
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