Studies On Virtual Environment Interaction

The Internet popularized greatly in the E-era. As a result of internet users'behaviors on the network, a new form of social groups - a "virtual community" is gradually forming, accompanied by virtual environment interaction. With the viewpoint of media technology, this paper discussed virtual environment interaction on the topic of YangYuanyuan event, which choose from BBS of Guantian teahouse in Tianya Community. The paper is supposed from the network technology intermediary perspectives, using the methods of literature studies﹑text analysis﹑observational approach and comparative analytic approach, to explore the meaning and the value of interaction in virtual communities through making a compare of the differences on interactive interpersonal relationships between physical environment and virtual environment.Chapter 1 Introduction Taking a brief review on human communication history, from the angle of technical development, to puts forward the control of space and time as the eternal theme in human communication history, then to question virtual characters living in the virtual communities how to communicate with others. It attempted to reflect virtual environment interaction from the three levels, which including: virtual spatial environment, virtual characters, virtual communities. Based on the reflection, the paper hypothesized that"the essence of communication is relationship".Chapter 2 E Life-symbolic existence with technology medium The chapter discoursed on cyberspace, a sense of space time that mainly uses the virtual network technology to build the virtual space. The individualized unity of characters communicate and play with each other freely in full time and space. On the one hand, the structure of virtual communities affects the interactive practice of the virtual characters. On the other hand, the construction of virtual communities can not be separated from the active influence of the virtual characters.Chapter 3 the form of the virtual character Concerning about the virtual characters in Guantian teahouse,and combining with their identifications and vitality there to investigate. They are summarized into three types: active, radical and neutral type. The way people communicate with each other have been changed by the electronic and interactive situation. The virtual characters become the unity of conveyance and reception. They reach their aim of self- construction and self- presentation by their active behaviors in the community and meanwhile obtain distinct and emotional experience and then advance to a kind of pleasure in spirit.Chapter 4 Virtual communities Think of the relationships of the combination. Coming up with the individual form of the virtual characters, and depending on the e-text writing and transmission, they are formed into a dispersed combination of imagination. To take Guantian teahouse as an example to analyze the situation in virtual communities, for instance, all schools of thoughts contend for attention and criticize each otherFrom the thesis, we found that: the virtual characters, within the virtual community, focus on"topics"."I said, there I am."They get together in a virtual way of life into an imaginative polymer with a spiritual core of seek common points while reserving difference. In virtual environment, the proposition that the essence of communication is relationship is still valid, and displaying a flow and discrete chain of relationship derived from the communication. The interactive mode of virtual characters is mainly divided into three types: Firstly, the group interaction changes into one-to-one interaction. Secondly, the interaction of one focus. Thirdly, horizontal interaction. The virtual characters become a kind of individual animal drifting away from the network formed by their own.