Week 6: Medicine in Second Life

First slideshow:

• Why do we need a second life?
• communtiy + online games + simulation = Second Life
• go to secondlife.com
• More than 15 million users, 28,274,505 online hours
• What does SL mean for people?
• It used to mean sex and money (but not now)
• Game? (chess); work? (The number of Second Life residents generating more than $5,000 in monthly income has more than quadrupled to 116 in the past year, according to San Francisco’s Linden Lab, owner of Second Life.); place?; tool?; entertainment?; sport?; opportunity?; appearance?
• register, download, install, open, log in
• You will be redirected to orientation island to learn the basic features.
• Avatars: alter egos or different avatars
• You can fly, walk, teleport, buy, sell, build.
• Communication (chat, IM, e-mail, voice)
• advantages (3D, media content, fast communication – SL fitness)
• disadvantages (reliability, serious hardware requirement)
• why do we need a SL?

Source

Take-home message: great opportunities for patients and medical professionals as well.

Second slideshow:

• How do medical students and physicians use it?
• AMMC
• Imperial College of London
• NHS London
• Scifoo Lives On
• Genome Island and many more
• Patients?
• Healthinfo Island
• Virtual Ability
• SLStroke and many more
• Where to follow health events?
• Barack Obama in SL

Take-home message: SL provides useful tools to organize meetings, educate and learn without borders.