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Virtual Goods Recommendations in Virtual Worlds
Joint Authors
Chen, Kuan-Yu
Liao, Hsiu-Yu
Chen, Jyun-Hung
Liu, Duen-Ren
Source
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-03-05
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Medicine
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Virtual worlds (VWs) are computer-simulated environments which allow users to create their own virtual character as an avatar.
With the rapidly growing user volume in VWs, platform providers launch virtual goods in haste and stampede users to increase sales revenue.
However, the rapidity of development incurs virtual unrelated items which will be difficult to remarket.
It not only wastes virtual global companies’ intelligence resources, but also makes it difficult for users to find suitable virtual goods fit for their virtual home in daily virtual life.
In the VWs, users decorate their houses, visit others’ homes, create families, host parties, and so forth.
Users establish their social life circles through these activities.
This research proposes a novel virtual goods recommendation method based on these social interactions.
The contact strength and contact influence result from interactions with social neighbors and influence users’ buying intention.
Our research highlights the importance of social interactions in virtual goods recommendation.
The experiment’s data were retrieved from an online VW platform, and the results show that the proposed method, considering social interactions and social life circle, has better performance than existing recommendation methods.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Chen, Kuan-Yu& Liao, Hsiu-Yu& Chen, Jyun-Hung& Liu, Duen-Ren. 2015. Virtual Goods Recommendations in Virtual Worlds. The Scientific World Journal،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1078862
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Chen, Kuan-Yu…[et al.]. Virtual Goods Recommendations in Virtual Worlds. The Scientific World Journal No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1078862
American Medical Association (AMA)
Chen, Kuan-Yu& Liao, Hsiu-Yu& Chen, Jyun-Hung& Liu, Duen-Ren. Virtual Goods Recommendations in Virtual Worlds. The Scientific World Journal. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1078862
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1078862