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Exploring the Use of Virtual Worlds as a Scientific Research Platform: The Meta-Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA)
FACETS OF VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS, v 33, pp 29-43
01 Jan 2010
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Abstract
We describe the Meta-Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA), the first professional scientific organization based exclusively in virtual worlds (VWs). The goals of MICA are to explore the utility of the emerging VR and VWs technologies for scientific and scholarly work in general, and to facilitate and accelerate their adoption by the scientific research community. MICA itself is an experiment in academic and scientific practices enabled by the immersive VR technologies. We describe the current and planned activities and research directions of MICA, and offer some thoughts as to what the future developments in this arena may be.
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- Title
- Exploring the Use of Virtual Worlds as a Scientific Research Platform: The Meta-Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA)
- Creators
- S. G. Djorgovski - California Institute of TechnologyP. Hut - The Institute for Advanced StudyS. McMillan - Drexel UniversityE. Vesperini - Drexel UniversityR. Knop - Drexel UniversityW. Farr - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyM. J. Graham - California Institute of Technology
- Contributors
- F LehmannGrube (Editor)J Sablatnig (Editor)
- Publication Details
- FACETS OF VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS, v 33, pp 29-43
- Series
- Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 3
- Grant note
- Ajax Foundation AST-0407448; HCC-0917817 / U.S. National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000307366800003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84885886796
- Other Identifier
- 991019170123904721
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