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Collecting conversations: three approaches to obtaining user-to-user communications data from virtual environments

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Mika Lehdonvirta, Vili Lehdonvirta, Akira Baba


Abstract

Transcripts of conversations are a valuable research resource in social sciences and can be used to make inferences about subjects’ behaviour and intentions. Large-scale communications records can be coded and analysed statistically for generalisable results. Virtual environments are a good place to gather communications records, because they exhibit a wide variety of subject behaviours.…
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