Emory Virtual Worlds – Business & Government Session (Panelist Intros)
Business in Virtual Worlds, Second Life | (3)
Second session at the Virtual Worlds Conference at Emory covers the 'collision' of virtual business and virtual government.
Panelists:
Meeting the panelists:
Byron Reeves, of Stanford
- psychology of self representation
- how can we take some of this 'primitive engagement' energy and use it in serious contexts
- not so much learning and simulation environment, but how to actually do serious work in virtual worlds
- non-visual things you can do...e.g. non visual games, synthetic currency via email
Rachel Gibson, University of Manchester
- looking at election campaigns online and use of Web and email
- moving into virtual worlds opens up new possibilities
- more abstract idea that there ...