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Why study avatars?

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An interesting article from the National Science Foundation on Jeremy Bailenson’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford. For those of you who wondered why immersive online spaces such as Second Life seem compelling, at least to some people, read the article and watch the video.  Food for thought.

Written by Eric Meyers

January 28th, 2011 at 10:39 am

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