Virtual worlds are an important tool in modern education practices as well as providing
socialisation, entertainment and a laboratory for collaborative work. This paper focuses on …

Practical applications of virtual reality (VR), defined as a three-dimensional digital
representation of a real or imagined space, have become increasingly popular and are now …

Virtual Influencers (VIs) are computer-generated characters, many of which are often visually
indistinguishable from humans and interact with the world in the first-person perspective as …

Second Life (SL) is currently the most mature and popular multi‐user virtual world platform
being used in education. Through an in‐depth examination of SL, this article explores its …

Virtual worlds and immersive simulations are designed to create a compelling, collaborative,
and participatory experience for the user, and often contain a variety of features not possible …

This paper offers a broad vision of the potential benefits which virtual worlds may provide for
improving learning, collaboration, motivation and therefore, the improvement in academic …

Virtual reality has gained worldwide interest among the researchers in the field of
educational technology recently. This chapter presents an overview of virtual reality …

Digital platforms increasingly propose business models that improve economic organisation-
by better coordinating supply and demand under imperfect information-and attain higher …

Previous studies on social virtual world (SVW) continuance have suggested that satisfaction,
which promotes SVW continuance intention, is determined by three types of perceived …

Background and aims Maladaptive daydreaming (MD) has many features of behavioral
addiction, but research exploring this syndrome is limited. This case study provides a …