Understanding Social Learning Behaviors via a Virtual Field Trip

Learning to be scientists via a virtual field trip (demonstration)

We have developed the virtual world of Omosa in which school students can learn what scientists do by doing it themselves. In Omosa students are able to observe, collect data and interact with a number of intelligent virtual human and animal agents.

Understanding the Influence of Social Identity on Social Support Seeking Behaviors in Virtual Healthcare Community

Virtual healthcare communities are receiving increasing attention as a promising platform to facilitate exchange of social support for their members. However, despite the large number of registered members of virtual healthcare communities, many members do not actively use their community. Some are reluctant to ask for help and others even do not visit the community frequently. Thus motivated, ...

Social Communication Behaviors of Virtual Leaders

Simulation of Social Behaviors in Virtual Crowd

This paper presents a novel communication model to simulate various crowd behaviors such as riot. Our communication model is heavily based on the results from sociology research. Collective behaviors can emerge out of social processes such as emotion contagion and conformity effect among individual agents. The communication model has been implemented in our crowd simulation system, IMCrowd, in ...

Learning in Virtual Worlds: Understanding Its Impact on Social and Cognitive Processes in Learning

This study responds to the call for systematic knowledge and understanding related to virtual world learning environments (VWLEs). This paper proposes a research model of VWLEs and explores the use of a VWLE on key social and cognitive process in learning during on-going interaction in the learning environment.