Web 3D for Public, Environmental and Occupational Health
December 18th, 2008 
Health, Research, Virtual Worlds 
Mark Kizelshteyn
An assemblage of researchers (Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Rameshsharma Ramloll, Ray Jones and Susan Toth-Cohen) released an shrewd overview of pedagogical occurrences and opportunities for health care on the 3D web. The paper is an excellent overview of the top educational sims within the Metaverse.
The paper also has an insightful discussion section looking at the relationship between the incubation of virtual worlds and how it parallels that of the web in the 1990s.
Read the paper here.
I would also like to draw your attention to a quote in the research regarding the versatile nature of collaboration in Virtual Worlds. This quote brings up the term “emotional bandwidth,” which I believe to be one of the mantras of the future of virtual worlds technology and health care.
“Because the full-colour, multifaceted nature of the experience offers so much more “emotional bandwidth” than traditional Web sites, e-mail lists and discussion groups, users say the experience can feel astonishingly real. Participants develop close relationships and share intimate details even while, paradoxically, remaining anonymous. Some say they open up in ways they never would in face-to-face encounters in real support groups, therapy sessions, or even with family and close friends in their true lives.”
Tags: Education, Health, Research, Second Life, Technology, Virtual Worlds, Web2.0
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