Ages of avatar: Community building for inhabited television

Craven, Mike; Benford, Steve; Greenhalgh, Chris; Wyver, John; Brazier, Claire Janine; Oldroyd, Amanda; Regan, Tim

Abstract

In this paper we describe and analyse the community building process for Ages of Avatar, a set of on-line Collaborative Virtual Environments created in Microsoft Virtual Worlds, which form part of an ongoing experiment in Inhabited Television, aiming to merge CVEs and broadcast media. We describe the means by which the CVEs were launched, promoted and supported alongside a television broadcast channel, and how actions of viewers acting as inhabitants in the CVE can be used to provide broadcast material. We explain how the world content and their super-structure were managed to encourage the growth of a community over a short period of time. Using logs of activities in the worlds we deduce some of the characteristics of the community which was formed.

Citation

Craven, M., Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Wyver, J., Brazier, C. J., Oldroyd, A., & Regan, T. (2000, September). Ages of avatar: Community building for inhabited television. Presented at Third International Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments, San Francisco, California, USA

• Presentation Conference Type: Edited Proceedings
• Conference Name: Third International Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments
• Start Date: Sep 10, 2000
• End Date: Sep 12, 2000
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2000
• Deposit Date: Nov 27, 2018
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 189-194
• Book Title: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments
• ISBN: 978-1-58113-303-5
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/351006.351040
• Keywords: collaborative virtual environments, inhabited television, virtual communities
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1283317
• Publisher URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/351006.351040