Collecting conversations: three approaches to obtaining user‐to‐user communications data from virtual environments

Transcripts of conversations are a valuable research resource in social sciences and can be used to make inferences about subjects’ behavior and intentions. Large-scale communications records can be coded and analyzed statistically for generalizable results. Virtual environments are a good place to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lehdonvirta, M, Lehdonvirta, V, Nagashima, Y
Format: Journal article
Published: Virtual Worlds Institute, Inc. 2011