TY - GEN
T1 - Designing the Metaverse
AU - Seidel, Stefan
AU - Yepes, Gregory
AU - Berente, Nicholas
AU - Nickerson, Jeffrey V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The Metaverse, a term coined in science fiction, is now being discussed seriously as a new form of infrastructure. The Metaverse is intended to make possible thematically interconnected immersive experiences. In this paper, we conceptualize the Metaverse as a meta design space. Within this space, designers create various interconnected design spaces. We highlight how the key dimensions of human experience (time, space, actors, and artifacts) each introduce tensions for making decisions in those design spaces, and we highlight the transitions between design spaces. This conceptual language opens up this novel and emergent phenomenon both to those wishing to design new disruptive technologies and those seeking to improve existing platform strategies. We conclude by highlighting how the Metaverse will not only comprise immersive virtual experiences but also transitions between physical and virtual experiences.
AB - The Metaverse, a term coined in science fiction, is now being discussed seriously as a new form of infrastructure. The Metaverse is intended to make possible thematically interconnected immersive experiences. In this paper, we conceptualize the Metaverse as a meta design space. Within this space, designers create various interconnected design spaces. We highlight how the key dimensions of human experience (time, space, actors, and artifacts) each introduce tensions for making decisions in those design spaces, and we highlight the transitions between design spaces. This conceptual language opens up this novel and emergent phenomenon both to those wishing to design new disruptive technologies and those seeking to improve existing platform strategies. We conclude by highlighting how the Metaverse will not only comprise immersive virtual experiences but also transitions between physical and virtual experiences.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85152237565
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 6699
EP - 6708
BT - Proceedings of the 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2022
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
T2 - 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2022
Y2 - 3 January 2022 through 7 January 2022
ER -