The Virtual Worlds Story Project: HIV/AIDS
The Virtual World’s Story Project (TVWSP) is a partnership between Jena Ball (SL: Jenaia Morane) and Marty Keltz (SL: Marty Snowpaw). We’ve previously covered one of their other story quests and they’ve certainly been prolific in the health and education field.
Their latest project is focused on HIV/AIDS and is titled The Life and Times of [...]
Midwifery, birth and Second Life
(This story originally appeared over at Metaverse Health)
For the past couple of years I’ve been aware of the work going on in New Zealand with midwifery training and Second Life, mostly thanks to the updates over at SLENZ.
Machinima maker Pooky Amsterdam dropped me a line about a film she’s helped produce that explains [...]
The physical health impacts of virtual environments
Over the past few days a product announcement and some interesting research have come together for me in illustrating some of the downsides of heavy regular use of virtual environments. I’m talking specifically about the physical impacts here: we’ve covered the psychological positives and negatives repeatedly (e.g. here and here). In regard to the [...]
Healthcare Support Groups in Virtual Worlds
(originally posted over on Metaverse Health)
As promised, I wanted to spend some time going over the recent handful of peer-reviewed papers submitted for the health-focused recent issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research.
First cab off the rank is the paper titled The Growth and Direction of Healthcare Support Groups in Virtual Worlds by John [...]
Suicide prevention, stories and Second Life
Suicide remains one of the issues that pretty much everyone feels queasy discussing. For the survivors of suicide, there’s not choice to discuss it and it’s one of two reasons a presence in Second Life has been created.
Located in Haetae, the purpose is is expression and support. There are two floors, Life and Death. Death [...]
Health Beyond 2009 – e-health, Serious Games and Second Life
Posted originally over on Metaverse Health:
As a Registered Nurse with a passion for the use of emerging technologies to improve health, it can sometimes be a little frustrating when things don’t seem to progress as fast as one would like. There’s also the ‘they just don’t get it’ phenomenon amongst some in health leadership and [...]
Interview – DeeAnna Nagel and Kate Anthony, Online Therapy Institute
DeeAnna Nagel and Kate Anthony are psychotherapists and founders of the Online Therapy Institute. The pair have only recently expanded their work to Second Life, but they have extensive experience in working with people therapeutically online. The pair now have a presence on Jokaydia in Second Life. I caught up with them to talk online [...]
