Table of Contents

Transformed Social Interaction: Exploring the Digital Plasticity of Avatars.- Selective Fidelity: Investigating Priorities for the Creation of Expressive Avatars.- Analysis and Visualization of Social Diffusion Patterns in Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds.- Collaborative Virtual Environments for Scientific Collaboration: Technical and Organizational Design Frameworks.- Analyzing Fragments of Collaboration in Distributed Immersive Virtual Environments.- The Impact of Display System and Embodiment on Closely Coupled Collaboration Between Remote Users.- The Good Inequality: Supporting Group-Work in Shared Virtual Environments.- Consequences of Playing Violent Video Games in Immersive Virtual Environments.- The Psychology of Massively Multi-User Online Role-Playing Games: Motivations, Emotional Investment, Relationships and Problematic Usage.- Questing for Knowledge—Virtual Worlds as Dynamic Processes of Social Interaction.- Play and Sociability in There: Some Lessons from Online Games for Collaborative Virtual Environments.- Digital Dystopia: Player Control and Strategic Innovation in the Sims Online.