Persistent online virtual environments, whether game worlds like World of Warcraft or social worlds like Second Life, provide social scientists with the opportunity to collect longitudinal behavioral profiles from users. These environments allow behavioral measures of interesting variables at the individual and group level to be collected and analyzed. For example, studies have examined mutual ...

This paper presents a novel wearable computer interaction and entertainment system which provides an interactive physical and mixed reality computer environment that spans large areas with multi-users, and can be extended to a whole city. Our system called "Game-City" is an embodied (ubiquitous, tangible, and social) wearable computing based mixed reality (MR) game space which regains the socia...

Social Media provide an exciting and novel view into social phenomena. The vast amounts of data that can be gathered from the Internet coupled with massively parallel supercomputers such as the Cray XMT open new vistas for research. Conclusions drawn from such analysis must recognize that social media are distinct from the underlying social reality. Rigorous validation is essential. This paper ...

Social reality is the construction that arises from interaction of individuals in a specific context, many students rural areas operate environments can affect their integral development, situation where emphasis placed on promoting communication as support element. The objective study to determine relationship between social and areas. methodology mixed, integrated by qualitative quantitative ...