Virtual Worlds have the potential to transform the way people learn, work, and play. With the emerging fields of service science and design science, professors and students at universities are in a unique position to lead the research and development of innovative and value-adding virtual worlds. However, a key barrier in the development of virtual worlds—especially for business, technical, and...

In this paper, we describe our ongoing research project of Virtual Babel, a contextaware machine translation system for Second Life, one of the most popular virtual worlds. We augment the Second Life viewer to intercept the incoming/outgoing chat messages and reroute the message to a statistical machine translation server. The returned translations are appended to the original text message to h...

using virtual social media and networks widely and relations based on electronic communication have transformed political and social activities in recent decades. the current essay aims to review the effects of virtual social media on the field of politics in iran. therefore, this essay propounds the questions: “how has the virtual social media caused transformation on the field of politics in ...

using virtual social media and networks widely and relations based on electronic communication have transformed political and social activities in recent decades. through this, in this essay we are going to review the effects of virtual social media on the field of politics in iran. therefore, this essay propounds the question that how has the virtual social media caused transformation on the f...