Two New York City in Second Life: NYC sim by Cheri Bing and Hotel Chelsea, Manhattan

NYC sim – New York City – A Work In Progress by a NYC Girl, Cheri Bing

http://slurl.com/secondlife/NYC/87/134/24

NYC sim – New York City

centromimir
07 luglio 2009

Hotel Chelsea, Manhattan, NYC

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lanestris/53/153/99

Hotel Chelsea

centromimir
07 luglio 2009

72 Hours in Second Life and New York

Millionsofus
17 ottobre 2006

On Thursday October 12th, Versu Richelieu entered a window at the corner of 39th Street and 5th Avenue in New York City. For the next 3 days, she stayed in the window and built out a replica of the city surrounding her. The story captivated the imagination of the internet community as hundreds of thousands of people logged into nyclivewindow.com to watch her progress in realtime.

luglio 7th, 2009 | Tags: Cheri Bing, città, Hotel Chelsea, Manhattan, New York, NYC, second life, towns, virt, virtual, virtuale

Anxiety, panic, agoraphobia and more in Second Life

Jan. 29, 2008

Real-Life Fears Faced In Online World

Having Alter-Egos In "Second Life" Helps People Cope, Reports Tracy Smith

Online World Can Help Real One

January 29, 2008 11:11 AM

A woman uses Second Life on the Internet to help her agoraphobia. Tracy Smith reports on how the web site can help people fix real life problems with virtual ones.


Watch CBS Videos Online

Free Online Treatment Program for Social Anxiety

Drexel University offers a free ONLINE treatment program for adults (ages 18-65) suffering from social anxiety disorder and living in the United States. This program is part of a study examining the efficacy of a treatment for social anxiety delivered through an internet-based program called Second Life.

Social Anxiety Treatment Using Second Life

True Life | Full Episode | 'I Live Another Life On The Web' | Three girls explore life on the web

My Own Little World

Judy escapes her social anxieties and panic disorder with her risqué website; aspiring musician Amy is too shy to perform in real life but is a rock star in her virtual world; Maleri avoids rejection from guys by meeting them online.

http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/236311/my-own-little-world.jhtml#id=1586148

Informed consent helping the mentally impaired in virtual worlds, as Second Life

A way of helping the mentally impaired to give informed medical consent

Informed consent and virtual worlds

The avatar will see you now

http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13899038

Jun 25th 2009 – From The Economist print edition

Imperial CollegeVirtually painless

THAT people undergoing medical procedures should give their informed consent might seem simple and uncontentious. But what if a patient has a mental impairment and his doctor does not have time to ensure he understands the proposed treatment? Those who try to look after the interests of such people say that, in practice, hard-pressed hospital staff often ask leading questions and the “consent” obtained is thus far from informed.

A team of researchers led by Suzanne Conboy-Hill, a psychologist at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, England, reckon virtual environments could provide the solution. They are designing a virtual model of the hospital and, in October, it will receive its first “patients”—a group of 20 volunteers with learning disabilities who will visit it in order to find out what’s what and, in particular, to be talked through the sort of treatment they might be offered if they really were patients.

The hospital is being built in Second Life, an online world in which people participate in the form of virtual representatives known as avatars. In the case of those in the study, their digital alter egos will begin their journeys at a simulation of the Grace Eyre Foundation centre for adults with learning disabilities in Brighton, which they attend in real life. Local landmarks such as the town’s famous seaside pier will be used to help familiarise them with their surroundings before they arrive at a virtual version of the Royal Sussex.

This particular version of Brighton will, however, be based in London. It will be hosted in a private part of Imperial College’s virtual postgraduate medical school in SciLands, a dedicated science and technology Second Life continent populated by around 30 universities, government agencies and museums. Once inside the hospital, the avatars will be directed to a waiting room. Then a virtual nurse will take them to a bed, where they will lie down to have virtual blood taken. A Second Life doctor will explain that they are about to have an anaesthetic. Meanwhile, a real person alongside the participant will answer any questions and, after the virtual visit is over, Dr Conboy-Hill will carry out “non-directive” interviews, a technique used by the police to encourage witnesses to choose what they want to talk about and to maximise recall.

If these interviews suggest the participants understood what was going on well enough to give informed consent, then the researchers plan to carry out a larger study, comparing their simulation directly with the standard method of obtaining consent face to face. If it proves better, who knows, it might not only be the mentally impaired who find that virtual doctors are better at explaining things than real ones.

Imperial College London – Unionview.com

Unionviewcom
10 dicembre 2008

Respiratory Ward HUD in Second Life – Imperial College London

mtoroyt
11 giugno 2009

The Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London has developed a region in Second Life that aims to design game-based learning activities for delivery of virtual patients. This video shows the Heads-Up Display (HUD) created to support the game-based learning activities. For more information about this project, please visit: http://www.elearningimperial.com Email: m.toro@imperial.ac.uk

• IRC Italian Resuscitation Council e Rianimazione CardioPolmonare RCP

Second Life Intralipid Lesson on Irc Italian Resuscitation Council Land

BiancaluceRobbiani
25 novembre 2008

Medicine education through virtual worlds: IRC Italian Resuscitation Council Intralipid Lesson: story of a success.

giugno 25th, 2009 | Tags: consenso informato, health, Imperial College London, informed consent, IRC, Italian Resuscitation Council, London, mental health, RCP, Rianimazione CardioPolmonare, salute, second life, virtual worlds

Second Life turns 6 years old. SL6B, June 23 — June 29, 2009. Virtual Worlds in 2024

Second Life turns 6 years old. SL6B, June 23 — June 29, 2009

Announcing SL6B, June 23 — June 29, 2009

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SL6B

On June 23, 2009, Second Life turns 6 years old. Hey! This is your second half-decade! Now you’re *so* much more sophisticated than 5, but still hovering near the oven, anxious to devour the cake, and wondering what 6 has in store for you. Or, for that matter, what about 7? 10? 15? Where do the years go, anyway?

Since you’re never content with things as they are, the event this year is a challenge to Residents: show how you intend to make things in 5, 10 or 100 years. The Birthday theme this year is The Future of Virtual Worlds and we’re betting you have some pretty awesome visions to share of the future you’re building here. How will Virtual Worlds work? How will they look? How will they be part of everyday life? How will we learn, socialize and evolve in them? How will they affect your beliefs, and be affected by your actions?

Once again, Linden Lab has set aside 20 regions for the Birthday celebration, and Residents are building their particular future to share with you. The event infrastructure is nearly complete, and it looks great. It’s a little dark, and a little shiny. It’s a little inspiring, and a little dystopian. It’s decidedly 3- dimensional. Think in light. Think in concept. Look up. Look under. Look in and listen closely.

Applications to build an exhibit are now closed. We will be reviewing all submitted applications next, and hope to have announcements going out to accepted exhibitors by June 1. Exhibitors will have a full 2 or 3 weeks on-site to build. The event will open June 23, and officially run for a week, (though we will keep the gates open for a week beyond that so that plenty of people can come by for a visit).

Historical Links

SL Birthday Events

• First Birthday Event
• Second Birthday Event
• Third Birthday Event
• Fourth Birthday Event
• Fifth Birthday Event
• Sixth Birthday Event

2024

dai mondi virtuali in avanti

http://duemilaventiquattro.wordpress.com/

Our vision for Virtual Environments in Year 2024 [English version] 2024

Opensource Obscure

Virtual Worlds in 2024
http://slurl.com/secondlife/SL6B Void/111/73/22
opening: June 23 – 10am SLT

The installation we have created for SL6B. The Future of Virtual Worlds represents some hypothetical use cases for virtual environments in 2024.

My choice of year 2024 as “the future” originates from the reflection that a 15-years’ time span would be long enough, allowing for substantial technological transformations, but sufficiently short for us to make fairly plausible predictions.

Assuming that no apocalypse(s) intervene in the meantime, in 2024 virtual worlds will be a multimedia space that can be universally accessed from the existing global communication networks by means of wide-spread and easy-to-use devices.

giugno 24th, 2009 | Tags: 2024, Opensource Obscure, Philip Linden, second life, SL6B, virual worlds

Any Gynoid a SuperStar in Second Life

superstar

Name:
Any Gynoid

Hometown:
Black Art — sim — Secondlife

Homepage:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Black%20Art/250/50

Joined iReport:
20-giu-2008

Biography
ANY1 GYNOID – Charity Event Organizer, SL Show Dancer, SL Activist, SL Academic – ANY brings glamor, charisma, and je ne sais quoi to SL in her roles’ actively promoting SL Fine Arts, SL Entertainment, SL Political Activism, and SL Education. ANY is one of the core organizers for mega events in SL, including: Lag 4 Peace, Aloft NPC Launch, Keeping Kids Safe, and the grid-wide Human Rights Festival. ANY is on the faculty of New Citizens Inc, and teaches NCI: EVENT ORGANISING (How to Generate Fun!) and NCI: EVENT PARTICIPATION (How to Have Fun!) every Sunday at 6am SLT http://slurl.com/secondlife/Nova%20Civis%20Caledon/195/30/24

SOURCE: http://www.ireport.com/people/any1gynoid

Beth Odets and Dan – Fish Fry Bingo (Second Life)

rpbizzle
18 ottobre 2008

Traditional Jewish music

livni2
06 luglio 2007

Seoraksan

Arte Psicologia Comunicazione e Memoria

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seoraksan/86/168/27

Starting from Piccola Mostra della Shoah Yom ha Shoah Holocaust Israel Jews Photos Videos Olocausto Binario 21 Fossoli Risiera di San Sabba Ebrei Ebraismo

and looking around…

NHS Confederation’s Annual Conference: Can Obama fix the US Health System? In Second Life too.

NHS Auditorium by Imperial College

Imperial College London and the NHS Confederation would like to invite you to take part in an exclusive event – an opportunity to attend a special session on June 12th 2009 normally available only to attendees of the NHS Confederation’s Annual Conference.

This year the theme is Local Leadership in the National Health Service, providing a unique overview of health service management.

Speakers will address the topics:

• “Can Obama fix the US Health System?”
• “What are the main risks and challenges that local leaders will have to contend with over the next 2-3 years?”
• “The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less”

http://slurl.com/secondlife/National%20Health%20Service/133/134/27

Taking a Tour of Karuna (by Carolina Keats, Project coordinator for Karuna)

In Pali, an early Indo-Aryan language of India, Karuṇā embodies the desire to remove harm and suffering, and is paired with mettā, the desire to bring about the well-being and happiness of others.

Join others to learn more about this brand new sim, devoted to
HIV/AIDS awareness and support, funded by the National Library of
Medicine through the Alliance Library System. If these scheduled
tours don't fit your own needs, please contact Carolina Keats or
Jenaia Morane, and we'll be glad to work with you.


Taking a Tour of Karuna from Lapsus_Weinstein on Vimeo.

DAYS and TIMES
Wednesdays, 11 a.m. SLT
Saturdays, 11 a.m. SLT

For further information about this project, funded by the National
Library of Medicine, please visit http://www.karunasl.info

Carolina Keats, Project coordinator for Karuna
also known as
Carol Perryman MSLIS
TRLN Doctoral... Visualizza altro Fellow
School of Information & Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research page: cperryman.com
Blog: http://evidence-based-librarian.blogspot.com/