# [m50jft1@hayek.cob.niu.edu: Presence in MUDS...]

"Robert J. Brown" (rj@eli.wariat.org)
Tue, 18 Mar 1997 15:21:51 -0600

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    From: "John Towell Ph.D." <m50jft1@hayek.cob.niu.edu>
    Subject: Presence in MUDS...
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    Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:05:11 PST
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    I have been notified that my manuscript co-authored with Elizabeth
    Towell entitled: "Presence in Text-Based Networked Virtual Environments
    or 'MUDS'" has been accepted for publication in the MIT-based journal
    "Presence."   Basically, the paper shows that 69% of the people that
    were studied, which were from six different groups of MOOers and
    totalled over 200 people, felt a sense of "being there" or presence
    when they were connected to a MOO. This study corroborates the fine
    work of Diane Schiano (Behavior Research Instruments, Methods and
    Computers, 1997, 29(2)[In Press]).

    I apologize for this shameless promotion but I know there are some
    listeners who are involved academically and desiring references to
    peer-reviewed MUD-related publications.

    I also want to take this time to acknowledge the help I've received
    from the moo-cows community.  The following is from the acknowledgments
    section of the paper.
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    Acknowledgments

    The authors thank Pavel Curtis and the MOO-cows community for a lot of
    help and a  marvelous MOO-support network, and especially Gustavo
    Glusman, founder of BioMOO,  for teaching and sharing his knowledge of
    MOO.

    *******

    Thanks everybody!

    John (aka Watson Crick - BioMOO Wizard) :)
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    Post-doc: Informatics            |      Networked Virtual Environments     |
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