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Diverse ruminations on human factors in virtual world experiences, not limited to the unexpected value of misconceptions
Second Life Insider
Oct 1st 2007 2:38PM Ultimately I would add Stability because of adaptation to the environment.
Is the goal here to stay in a virtual world? Is that a worthy goal, given the current incarnation’s self serving dislocation from reality? Once a person moves into initial comprehension of the current environment they engage in emotional search and rescue until burn out. Only then do they really get it.
A pretty consistant trough and peak experience between satisfaction and friction will more closely resemble real life once we more fully integrate our facebook/twitering lives into our avatars. Emotional swings from misconception to novelty will fall away as social communication becomes the primary use of an avatar and not novelty.
