The Metaverse: A Systematic Literature Review to Map Scholarly Definitions

Mashael Yousef Almoqbel; Azadeh Naderi; Donghee Yvette Wohn; Nitesh Goyal

doi:10.1145/3500868.3559448

The Metaverse: A Systematic Literature Review to Map Scholarly Definitions

Mashael Yousef Almoqbel, Azadeh Naderi, Donghee Yvette Wohn, Nitesh Goyal

Informatics

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Abstract

Metaverse is the new buzz word in the field of technology, particularly in the media and industry. Studies of virtual spaces have been going on in academia for decades, and industry has been creating such spaces as commercial products. However, the specific term "metaverse"has been used sparingly, and when used, the definitions have been inconsistent. In an effort to understand how researchers are using this term, we conducted a systematic literature review and reviewed articles that used and defined the term metaverse. We categorized the main characteristics that researchers have defined as being properties of the metaverse, finding broad overlaps but divergence in details.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CSCW 2022 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2022 Computer Supported Cooperative Workand Social Computing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	80-84
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450391900
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3500868.3559448
State	Published - Nov 8 2022
Event	25th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2022 - Virtual, Online, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: Nov 8 2022 → Nov 22 2022

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Conference

Conference	25th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2022
Country/Territory	Taiwan, Province of China
City	Virtual, Online
Period	11/8/22 → 11/22/22

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Software
Computer Networks and Communications
Human-Computer Interaction

Keywords

Metaverse
systematic literature review
virtual reality
virtual worlds

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Almoqbel, M. Y., Naderi, A., Wohn, D. Y., & Goyal, N. (2022). The Metaverse: A Systematic Literature Review to Map Scholarly Definitions. In CSCW 2022 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2022 Computer Supported Cooperative Workand Social Computing (pp. 80-84). (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3500868.3559448

Almoqbel, Mashael Yousef ; Naderi, Azadeh ; Wohn, Donghee Yvette et al. / The Metaverse : A Systematic Literature Review to Map Scholarly Definitions. CSCW 2022 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2022 Computer Supported Cooperative Workand Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. pp. 80-84 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

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Almoqbel, MY, Naderi, A, Wohn, DY & Goyal, N 2022, The Metaverse: A Systematic Literature Review to Map Scholarly Definitions. in CSCW 2022 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2022 Computer Supported Cooperative Workand Social Computing. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 80-84, 25th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2022, Virtual, Online, Taiwan, Province of China, 11/8/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3500868.3559448

The Metaverse: A Systematic Literature Review to Map Scholarly Definitions. / Almoqbel, Mashael Yousef; Naderi, Azadeh; Wohn, Donghee Yvette et al.
CSCW 2022 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2022 Computer Supported Cooperative Workand Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. p. 80-84 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

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