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Main Contact: Assistant Prof. Pietro Michiardi
Institut Eurecom,
2229, route des Cretes,
BP 193, F-06560 Sophia-Antipolis (FRANCE)
Tel: +33.(0)4.93.00.81.45
FAX: +33.(0)4.93.00.82.00
email: Pietro dot Michiardi at eurecom.fr
In this work we target gathering statistical data from one of the most prominent examples of meta-world available over the Internet. We are interested in collecting data that characterize the physical activity of avatars on the whole virtual space available (both public and private spaces), and in the social activities carried out by users of Second Life. Before putting traces available for public scientific utilization we process them to get rid of redundant information and, most importantly, if relevant we will mask any information that may lead to a link to real life information of the user of a particular avatar. This point deals with the process of keeping anonymous any information gathered by our crawlers.
Where do we mine: We mine every possible location in the Second Life space. Virtual sensors are deployed everywhere possible on public lands and everywherepossible (with permissions) on private lands, while keeping an eye on not overloading the Second Life system with our objects. We also built an external crawler that can monitor every land of the Second Life metaverse.
What do we mine: We currently mine the following data: