Virtual technologies concepts, methodologies, tools and applications /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Kisielnicki, Jerzy.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
• Subjects: Information technology > Social aspects.; Information technology > Technological innovations.; Technology > Social aspects.; Virtual computer systems.; Adaptive virtual reality shopping malls; Artificial consciousness and virtual reality; Building the virtual into teacher education; Building trust in virtual communities; Case studies in virtual multicultural education; Challenges in virtual environment design; Codes of ethics in virtual communities; Collaborative virtual geographic environment; Community and gender in the virtual classroom; Conducting ethical research in virtual environments; Creating telepresence in virtual mediated environments; Culture in virtual communities; Distance learning applications using virtual communities; Distributed virtual reality learning environments; Improving virtual teams through creativity; International virtual offices; Mobile virtual communities; Team effectiveness in virtual environments; Virtual enterprise organization; Virtual innovation environment; Virtual integration; Virtual laboratory for digital signal processing; Virtual learning and teaching environments; Virtual reality applications in tourism; Virtual reality in medicine; Virtual worlds and simulations
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• Physical Description: electronic texts (1701 p. : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9781599049564 (ebook)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

This book includes the most encompassing research of the concepts and realities involved in the field of virtual communities and technologies. A ground-breaking, multi-volume compendium of 167 chapters from a global pool of more than 350 experts, it presents an in-depth analysis of the technologies and social and economic impacts of virtual environments, comprising such topics as collaborative technologies, resource-based view strategy, structuration theory, synchronous and asynchronous environments, and videoconferencing life-cycle.