Virtual Worlds Observatory (VWO)
http://www.vwobservatory.com/

VWO team consists of experienced social scientists and computer scientists from Northwestern University, University of Southern California, University of Illinois, and University of Minnesota. Their team studies various kinds of online communities and video games. They seek to uncover and model the intricacies of human behaviors and interactions. In collaboration with their industry and government sponsors and partners, their team conducts systematic studies of human behaviors by using social network analysis and data mining techniques. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.