Stories are pervasive in conversation between people [5]. They are used to establish identity pass on cultural heritage, and build rapport. Often stories are swapped when one conversational participant will reply to a story with a story. Stories are also told by virtual humans [1, 6, 2]. In creating or mining stories for a virtual human (VH) to tell, there are a number of considerations that co...

The concept of self-presence describes how the self is extended into mediated environments through virtual self representations. Until now, there has been no standard measurement of self-presence because the previous definitions of this concept have not utilized a holistic definition of the self. Addressing this need, the present paper proposes a standardized Self-Presence Questionnaire (SPQ) b...

Development of Privacy Protecting Identity Management System for E-Government in India Aparajita Pandey Astt. Professor, BIT(Mesra), Jaipur Campus Email: [email protected] Dr. Jatinderkumar R. Saini Director (I/C) & Associate Professor, Narmada College of Computer Application, Bharuch, Gujarat, India [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------...

The malleable nature of the self led researchers to investigate the meaning of virtual identity by exploring virtual self-representation through avatars and its association with users' identity. The present study aims to investigate the changes in virtual body-representation in adolescence related to age levels and sex and the association with adolescents' self-esteem and body esteem. Anthropom...

We describe a five-month pilot project conducted in the dialysis unit at Boston's Children's Hospital. Pediatric patients with renal disease used the Zora therapeutic community program while undergoing hemodialysis. Zora is a 3D multi-user computer environment designed at the MIT Media Laboratory to help young people explore issues of identity, while engaging in a virtual community. Users build...

The modern world is populated with a great many physical and virtual IAMS (Identity Access Management Systems), where people need to maintain various login credentials. There is a key issue associated with this approach, which is the ability to remember this information; however, this can be circumvented to some degree through utilising an innovative approach of a single sign-in mechanism. Thro...

Blogging has fast emerged as an unparalleled social computing phenomenon not to be ignored. This paper begins by reviewing the motivation factors for blogging identified in the extant literature. These factors can be broadly classified as either activities-based or behavioral-based. We then propose that a root motivation factor based on the theoretical underpinnings of self identity and social ...