Second Life Researcher Resources

Slide 1: Second Life Researcher Resources PF Anderson, pfa@umich.edu a.k.a. Perplexity “Lexi” Peccable (SL)

Slide 2: 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

Slide 3:Research: PubMed search

Slide 4: Stress management • MD to fight stress in Second Life: http://www.boston .com/business/tec hnology/articles/2 008/03/03/md_to_ fight_stress_in_se cond_life/

Slide 5:Pain control

Slide 6:Rehabilitation

Slide 7:Motor control assessment & training

Slide 8:Modeling research environments

Slide 9:Prototyping & usability tes