Health News in Second Life: More and More Tools April 7, 2008
Posted by Bertalan Meskó in Education, Health 2.0, Innovation, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Second Life, Web 2.0, science.trackback
In Second Life, the virtual world, there are so many tools in several aspects of medicine. Here I present just a few examples:
- Virtual Reality to Fight Real Paranoia (Medgadget)
- Medical Education in Second Life (Medical Education Blog):
- A Second Life on Second Life (The Health Care Blog)
- New home for Second Nature (Nascent): Second Nature is a fantastic island organized by Nature and that is the site where we organize our Scifoo lives on sessions as well.
A woman with depression chats openly with a mental health professional she has never met in person. A gentleman attending a multi-national meeting cannot negotiate the steps because of his cerebral palsy, so he “flies” his wheelchair onto the stage where he gives a presentation on the power of modern computing. A lonely, elderly man in the United States spends an evening sharing his feelings with a girlfriend in Chile.
- The Virtual World Gets Healthy (SLHealthy.wetpaint.com): Since starting in August of 2007, the SLHealthy wiki has catalogued 149 different health groups and has had over 2,000 visitors from all over the world.
Further reading:
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