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Addiction, research, health in a virtual world

Student British Medical Journal gets the virtual worlds picture

The December Student BMJ has an excellent overview of the growing use of Second Life for medical simulation.
The collaborative and immersive meetings aspects are also covered and although the article is pitched at non-virtual world users, it provides a balanced summary of goings-on to date.
A big thanks to Mal Burns for the heads-up.

A better system? Teaching healthcare virtually

Rather than assessing their students through a paper-based examination, or even by having real, live people come in to pretend to be patients, it is starting to become more common to hear of healthcare educators asking their students instead to use computer applications and tools featuring digitally-created patients.
There are a myriad decisions [...]

Linden Lab mainland advertising ban kicks in

Linden Lab have provided an update on their recent clamp down on mainland advertising in Second Life.
Now that we’re seeing less advertising, is it time for some social behaviour change? Would it hurt to have some positive health messages advertised around the grid? I’d love to hear your thought - what messages would you like [...]

World AIDS Day in Second Life

There’s another new health project in development in Second Life - Karuna. It’s The focus is ‘HIV / AIDS education, outreach and support’ and it’s scheduled for launch on December 1st, World AIDS Day.

Partners in the project include AIDS.gov and the University of North Carolina Center for AIDS research, Community Outreach, Dissemination, and Education Office [...]

Health - spread the word!

Delivering health messages to the general public is difficult at the best of times. It’s tough to capture the attention of people when talking about health – unless it’s their area of expertise, most people don’t want to be bothered thinking about their health any more than is strictly necessary. Those who are [...]

‘Rogues Gallery’ health event in Second Life

There’s a small but growing group in Second Life called Healthcare Education. The group was founded by the University of Michigan’s Patricia Anderson (SL: Perplexity Peccable) and a seminar series has been organised for the 26th September at 7.00am SL time (Midnight on the 26th AET).
The event will be held on Health EduIsland and the [...]

Stepping into Health Conference

I ran across the following promo this week:
“Stepping into Health” becomes Third in Popular “Stepping into Virtual Worlds” Series
Using virtual worlds to promote health and healthcare is the topic of the next installment of the popular “Stepping into Virtual Worlds” conference series, to be offered October 7th, 2008 in Second Life. Hundreds of [...]

Virtual Ability Island

Virtual Ability is an island in Second Life devoted to individuals with disabilities or chronic health conditions.

Initially funded by the USA’s National Library of Medicine, it now relies on individual contributions. It contains a number of discrete areas including training facilities for people with chronic health conditions. They even have their own orientation section which [...]

Call for chapter submissions: Serious Games

If you’ve got an interest in writing on serious games, this may be your thing:
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: September 5, 2008
Serious Game Design and Development: Technologies for
Training and Learning
A book edited by Dr. Janis Cannon-Bowers & Dr. Clint Bowers
University of Central Florida
Purpose and Goals of the Book
The use of gaming approaches for more [...]

Obesity Research at University of Houston

I came across a press release from the University of Houston about a health challenge being run entirely in Second Life. If you’re interested in earning some Linden dollars and learning something at the same time, sign up in-world.
I had a quick look around and it’s an interesting set up. The full details:
International Health Challenge [...]

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