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Authors Mikhail Fominykh, Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland, Mikhail
Morozov and Alexey Gerasimov
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Virtual City as a Place for Educational and Social Activities
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning,
4(s2), 2009, Universität Kassel.
Mikhail Fominykh and Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland conducted
the study and wrote the paper. Mikhail Morozov provided
feedback throughout the writing process and participated in
conducting the study. Alexey Gerasimov led the development of
the environment, participated in conducting the study and data
analysis.
In this paper, we present a case study conducted using VCYO. We
explore user activities and behaviour in a virtual city context. Our
goal was to investigate how such a city can facilitate learning and
socializing, also in a cross-cultural context. Based on the analysis
of the study results, we present initial guidelines for designing a
virtual city as a place for social and educational activities.
The paper contributes towards C4: Guidelines for designing
virtual campuses and educational virtual cities.
The paper partly answers research question RQ2b: How to
design environments of a virtual campus and a virtual city?
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