Second Life Researcher ResourcesPF Anderson, pfa@umich.edu

a.k.a. Perplexity “Lexi” Peccable (SL)

Virtual Worlds

• Second Life one of many– Croquet– Wonderland– World of Warcraft– Open Grid / Open Sim– Proprietary environments

• Leverage resources & affordances of shared environments & communities

Research: PubMed search

Stress management

• MD to fight stress in Second Life: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/03/03/md_to_fight_stress_in_second_life/

Pain control

Rehabilitation

Motor control assessment & training

Modeling research environments

Prototyping & usability testing

CPR training in virtual worlds

Team training with virtual worlds

Team training with virtual worlds 2

3D data mapping - searching

3D data mapping - bioterrorism

3D data mapping - emergency simulation

Virtual worlds in health education

Places to publish: JVWR

Places to publish: CyberPsychology

Professional Development

• Will your next poster session be in Second Life?

Professional development:

Poster session at

Second Nature

Professional development: Attending presentations

Nanotechnology lecture series

Virtual worlds & collaboration

Research locations in SL

• Biomedicine Research Labs

• CDC

• Genome

• Second Nature

• NMC Research

• Play2Train

• Virtual Hallucinations

In-world research & science communities

• Association of SL Academic Research

• PhD Research Community

• RL EdD/PhD Students in SL

• SL Researchers

• Science Center

Events - Conferences

Events - Lecture series

• Nanotechnology

• Science Friday

Outworld Communities & Resources

• Email groups

• Blogs

• Wikis

• Conferences, events, meetups

Email groups

• SLRL: http://list.academ-x.com/listinfo.cgi/slrl-academ-x.com

Blogs: Second Life Research

Blogs: Daneel Ariantho

• http://daneelariantho.wordpress.com/

Blogs: Second Sight

• http://www.sonic.net/%7Erknop/blog/

Blog Entries

Wikis

• SaLamander Wiki: http://www.eduisland.net/salamanderwiki/index.php?title=Science

• SimTeach: Second Life Research: http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Research

• SimTeach: Second Life Grad Student Colony: http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Grad_Student_Colony

• Theory.Wikispaces: Second Life Research: http://theory.wikispaces.com/Second+Life+Research

Wikis: SimTeach

Wikis: SaLamander: Science & Health in Second Life

More: SLHealthy

More: HealthyCyberMap

• HealthCyberMap: http://healthcybermap.semanticweb.org/sl.htm