... to overcome addictions have a new arena to test their coping skills -- the virtual world. A new study found that a virtual reality environment can provide the climate necessary to spark an alcohol ...
... habits and physical activity. The study will take place entirely in the virtual world of Second Life (SL). The project is part of the UH Texas Obesity Research Center's (TORC) ...
... an international effort to recruit 500 participants for a study promoting healthy dietary habits and physical activity. The study will take place entirely in the virtual world of Second Life...
... from Northwestern University who conducted the first experimental field studies in the virtual world.
They found that avatars in these elaborate fantasylands responded to social cues to help one ...
Second Life, a virtual world created in 2003, currently boasts more than 12 million users worldwide ... or her self. It is the user's persona inside virtual space.
The assigned task revolved around the ...
Second Life, a virtual world created in 2003, currently boasts more than 12 million users worldwide ... to shopping. Now, Penn State researchers are investigating how virtual teams can better solve real ...
... important issue," Montoya says, "because we believe that if users feel they are 'present' in the virtual world, they will collaborate better with other members of their team – and the more effective ...
... campaign headquarters, held grass roots rallies, handed out virtual buttons and T-shirts, and signed up actual voters in the virtual world of Second Life and other online communities.
Finnish-based Muxlim.com, the world's largest Muslim online community, will in a few weeks launch a prototype of a Muslim-friendly virtual world, the company said Friday.
A trial version of the world's first Muslim-friendly virtual world was launched Tuesday, where users can create an online persona, design their own rooms, buy virtual items and interact with others.
... of Technology have formed the first professional scientific organization based entirely in virtual worlds. Called the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA), the organization conducts ...
A paralysed man using only his brain waves has been able to manipulate a virtual Internet character, Japanese researchers said Monday, calling it a world first.
... first time, a person with a serious muscular disorder has used brainwaves to chat and stroll through the virtual world of Second Life. The computer system uses electrodes as small as 1cm in diameter ...
... research and less time and money developing simulations."
More than 300 researchers from around the world have used the "virtual environment for dynamic atomic force microscopy," or VEDA, since it ...
... In real time, the students interact and communicate with Masha.
"Ideally it is not that we are out to prove that virtual worlds or the VICSR system is better than standard instruction, but that they ...
