SLACTIONS 2010

The organization of SLACTIONS 2010 will be led by Kathy Keeling and Peter McGoldrick from the Manchester Business School, of The University of Manchester. Hope we can meet all and with more colleagues again next year inWorld and within our chapters being ruled by the MBS.

Live Opera Concert closes SLACTIONS 2009

Opera Joven from Barcelona with Brent Renard aka Marco Chavez-Aguayo in the voice and iago Hepzipig on the piano.

Virtual Learning for the management of successful SMEs in Europe

The Auditorium Again...

Nice Pictures from SLACTIONS auditorium

Petry Wickentower

Dera Kit

Andabata Mandelbrot

Naikodemus Nemeth

Bennamino Beebe

Artwork by sunflower Aichi at midnight

Democratization of Creativity and Cultural Production in Virtual Worlds... by Marco Antonio Chavez-Aguay

Artwork by sunflower Aichi

sunflower Aichi aka real name Wafa BOURKHIS, is a PhD Student working between University of Tunis, Tunisia and University of Artois, France. You can see more work from her here.

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Open Science Project Noke Yuitza

Digital Guqin Museum from a Virtual World to the Real World by Shuen-git Chow

Multimedia Design Manipulation Using Second Life in Education Newman Lau and Ben Wong

HK PolyU Library in Second Life by Mei Li (aka May Lewites)

Material from conference...

Picture from region in Second Life

Leonel Morgado aka Andabata Mandelbrot

Leonel playing the true World Maitre de Conferences for Slactions 2009

Stage at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Proposed Theoretical Framework for Virtual World Adoption

by Shalini Chandra, Yin Leng Theng, May 0’Lwin and Schubert Foo Shou-Boon

SCREENING of the documentary SECOND SKIN

The screening was kindly permitted by the movie director Juan Carlos Pineiro-Escoriaza only for the Slactions Physical Chapters. It occurred in the following ones: Austin, Berkeley and Braga.

2º Day

SLACTIONS Best Paper awards for JVWR and C&G

The list of best paper awards to be published under the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research was released yesterday at the end of the first day. The General Chairs of Slactions are more than happy to announce the list here again:

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Who am I - and if so, where? A Master Thesis on Personality in Virtual Realities
Benjamin Aas, Katharina Meyerbröker and Paul M. G. Emmelkamp

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Second Life: Offering Marginalized Youth a Second Chance
Sneha Veeragoudar Harrell and Dor Abrahamson

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GeLive: Requirement Collection for Student Software Engineering Projects in a Virtual World
Vincent Ng and Zoe Tang

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Metaverse - The Affective and Aesthetic Systems and its Digital Morphologies in Virtual Environments
Donizetti Louro, Tânia Fraga and Mauricio Pontuschka

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Ontological-cognitive structures of the Metaverses
Luís Carlos Petry

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The Ontological Aspects of Puzzles into Metaverses
Cristiano N. Tonéis and Luís Carlos Petry

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Multimedia Design Manipulation Using Second Life in Education
Newman Lau and Ben Wong

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Digital Guqin Museum from a Virtual World to the Real World :Conception and design of an ongoing cultural sim
Shuen-git Chow


Besides JVWR awards SLACTIONS had also another kind encouragement to submit an extended version to the Computer & Graphics An International Journal of Systems & Applications in Computer Graphics for the paper,

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ArchHouseGenerator – A Framework for House Generation
Nuno Carlos Sousa Rodrigues, Luís Magalhães, João Moura, Filipe Santos, Leonel Morgado and Alan Chalmers

SLACTIONS 2009 MetaverSense Israeli Chapter pics

Slactions Day 1

Sneha Mathy