The article by Associate Professor of Physics Tony Crider and ÁñÁ«app¹Ù·½ÍøÕ¾Èë iMedia alumnus Jessica Torrez-Riley ’12 appeared in the most recent volume of Journal of Virtual Worlds Research.
Their article “” appeared in the most recent volume of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research. By comparing search data to available user data for Facebook and various virtual worlds, Crider and Torrez-Riley found the Google Trends data alone did not correlate with other measures of user interest. They also offered a preliminary analysis of Google Trends data for recently launched social virtual worlds that use virtual reality.