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Research Questions

Here is a list of questions that people researching the effectiveness of virtual worlds would like to be able to collect data about.

Where's the activity?

• Number of users over a certain period of time
• Number of simultaneous users over time
• Heat maps showing accurate traffic data
• Record of applications used and for how long

Who's collaborating?

• Avatar locations and proximity to other avatars
• Number of people in "ear shot" of a talking avatar
• Number of times control passes in shared applications
• Number of avatars in proximity to an application being shared

What happened?

• Record of which interactive objects or applications were used
• Automated video recordings of certain spaces
• Record events to play back later and view from different perspectives

Data Collection Mechanisms

(TBD)