Journal publication · 2025
Wang, G., Zhang, Z., Nandhakumar, J., & Manoharan, N. (2025). Everyday Metaverse: The metaverse as an integral part of everyday life. Journal of Management Information Systems, 42(1), 310–342. https://doi.org/10.1080/07421222.2025.2455772
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The digital environment and its intended behaviours are defined in advance.
Original insight
Technological fluidization supports design correspondence as physical life unfolds.
Consequence
The relevant digital world emerges through the moment’s actors, artifacts, place, and time.
The Dedicated Metaverse paradigm centres on a bounded digital environment and predefined capability–behaviour pairings. Its design tends to draw users into that environment rather than accommodate transitions across everyday settings.
The paper introduces the Everyday Metaverse and explains its design through technological fluidization and design correspondence: expand digital possibilities, then actualise the part relevant to a particular moment of life.
Craft a technological environment that accommodates life across physical and digital worlds.
Synchronise digital and physical entities and events.
Recognise life patterns and emerging opportunities to make digital resources relevant.
Spatiotemporal synchrony and attentive association work together as design correspondence. This is an explanatory framework, not an implemented simulation.
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A paradigm in which the metaverse forms an integral part of everyday life.
Craft a technological environment that accommodates the fluidity of life between physical and digital worlds.
Establish relevance by synchronising digital and physical entities and events across space and time.
Attend to life patterns and emerging opportunities to make digital resources relevant to the moment.
The paper’s design process combining spatiotemporal synchrony and attentive association, informed by lived experience.
Instead of specifying a bounded digital world and behaviours, the framework starts with expandable possibilities and explains their contingent actualisation through everyday life.
Theoretical integration, pp. 331–333; contributions, p. 334.
The original framework relates technological fluidization, spatiotemporal synchrony, and attentive association. It develops design correspondence by drawing on, rather than claiming to invent, experiential computing and correspondence.
Figure 8 and Table 3, p. 333; contributions, p. 334.
Use open, interoperable infrastructure that can incorporate new technologies and services as everyday activities evolve.
Practical guidance 1, p. 335.
Assess whether people can move across digital and physical experiences without disruption, rather than judging only the accuracy of digital representations.
Practical guidance 2, p. 335.
Engage users to understand everyday life deeply enough to recognise relevant moments, going beyond asking them to validate a finished design.
Practical guidance 3, p. 335.
Why this matters
The framework redirects attention from immersion inside one digital world to continuity across digital and physical experiences, opening questions about interoperability, relevance, and everyday engagement.
Discuss this researchInterpretive study of the ongoing i-City hybrid-city design project: 30 interviews, 40 weeks of observation, and archival data. It explains design processes, not demonstrated post-implementation outcomes or long-term effects.
Interpretive case, data collection and analysis; project is still in development.
Framework, Table 3, and contrast with capability–behaviour pairing.
Three practical guidelines and untested post-implementation questions.
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