What Is Metaverse? - A Definition Based on Qualitative Meta-Synthesis
What Is Metaverse? - A Definition Based on Qualitative Meta-Synthesis
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什么是元宇宙？
DOI：
10.3390/fi14110310
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发表时间：
2022
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Markus Weinberger
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作者：
Markus Weinberger
元宇宙一词在各个行业、社会以及科学界受到了广泛关注。这就产生了对该主题的全面且广泛接受的定义的需求，该定义以研究为基础。与此同时，元宇宙与其说是一种可检验的现象，不如说是一种进化中的愿景。因此，本研究应用元综合方法的改编版本来分析现有文献并提炼元界定义的提案。改编后的方法考虑了主题的性质，通过权衡引用较多的较年轻的出版物与较旧的、影响力较小的文献。最初，47 篇出版物被纳入该流程，其中 24 篇在初步分析后留下。经过分析，提出了以下定义：“元宇宙是一个由无处不在的虚拟世界组成的互连网络，与物理世界部分重叠并增强了物理世界。这些虚拟世界使以化身为代表的用户能够相互连接和交互，在沉浸式、可扩展、同步和持久的环境中体验和消费用户生成的内容。经济系统为为虚拟世界做出贡献提供激励。 元宇宙。”荟萃方法确保了系统性和可重复性，同时保留了分析文献的原始声音和概念，以便在现有文献的基础上创造新的知识；因此，拟议的元宇宙定义可能会成为未来研究的有用基础。
The term Metaverse has received much attention in various industries, in society, and, increasingly, in scientific communities. This creates demand for a comprehensive and broadly accepted definition of the subject, which is well grounded in research. At the same time, the Metaverse is rather a vision under evolution than an examinable phenomenon. Therefore, this study applied an adapted version of the meta-synthesis method to analyze the existing literature and distill a proposal for a Metaverse definition. The adapted method takes the nature of the subject into account by weighing younger publications with many citations over older, less influential documents. Initially, 47 publications were fed into the process, of which 24 were left after the primary analysis. As a result of the analysis, the following definition is proposed: “The Metaverse is an interconnected web of ubiquitous virtual worlds partly overlapping with and enhancing the physical world. These virtual worlds enable users represented by avatars to connect and interact with each other, to experience and consume user-generated content in an immersive, scalable, synchronous and persistent environment. An economic system provides incentives for contributing to the Metaverse.” The meta-synthesis method ensures a systematic and reproducible approach while at the same time preserving the original voice and notion of the analyzed literature in order to create new knowledge based on the existing literature; thus the proposed Metaverse definition might serve as a helpful foundation for future research.