"Metaverse: A real change or just another research area?" - New paper in Electronic Markets

 

  A new discussion paper that emerged from the "Workshop on the Digitization of the Individual" has been published in Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business. This paper provides an introduction to the emerging phenomenon of “Metaverse” and summarizes the discussion and expert perspectives on the topic. Furthermore, this paper links the discussion to the ongoing discourse in the literature, setting the stage for further investigations by providing explicit research avenues and questions.
 
Reference: Peukert, C., Qahri-Saremi, H., Schultze, U., Thatcher, J. B., Cheung, C. M. K., Frenzel-Piasentin, A., Greve, M., Matt, C., Trenz, M., & Turel, O. (2024). Metaverse: A real change or just another research area? Electronic Markets, 34(1), 32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-024-00711-5

Article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12525-024-00711-5 (open access)
 

DOTI 2022: Workshop Program for Copenhagen

The 5th Workshop on the Digitization of the Individual will take place in meeting room 6-7 at Bella Center Copenhagen on December 11, 2022.

On-site registration will be offered at the workshop site for those who have not registered yet. Registered participants can pick up their registration package at the workshop site.

Workshop timeline:

Time

Item

Presenters

1:00 – 1:15 PM

Welcome & Introduction

Workshop Chairs

1:15 – 1:35 PM

Privacy Perceptions in the Metaverse: An Empirical Investigation of Users’ Responses and Implications for VR Platform Designers

Julia Schulmeyer, Sofia Schöbel, and Gerrit Cziehso

1:35 – 1:55 PM

Identification of Customer Preferences in Virtual Reality using Eye-Tracking Data and Machine-Learning Based Time Series Classification

Tobias Weiß, Jella Pfeiffer, Christian Peukert, and Thies Pfeiffer

1:55 – 2:15 PM

Social Media Use and Well-Being: An Actual Behavior Study

Katharina Baum, Olga Abramova, Margarita Gladkaya, and Hanna Krasnova

2:15 – 2:30 PM

Coffeebreak

2:30 – 2:50 PM

How Low-Immersive Virtual Reality Affects Offline Sales in the Real Estate Market

Shih-Hui (Steven) Hsiao, Yen-Yao Wang, and Tony Lin

2:50 – 3:10 PM

Measuring Real Behavior in Virtual Worlds

Jannes H. D. Menck, Henrik Lechte, and Tim-Benjamin Lembcke

3:10 – 3:30 PM

Mind the Gap: A Theory Development Approach for Explaining the Divergence of Human Information Processing Capacity and Information Amount

 Moritz T. Bruckner, Maximilian Grüning, Michaela Lindenmayr, and Kian Schmalenbach

3:30 – 3:45 PM

Coffeebreak

3:45 – 5:00 PM

Expert panel on "Metaverse: a real change for individuals and society or just another research arena?"

Panelists: Christian Peukert, Hamed Qahri-Saremi, Ulrike Schultze and Jason B. Thatcher

 

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