Speech-Language & Hearing Science : Larynx Anatomy Test

[9:49] Blue Terminal: Hello Daneel Ariantho, thank you for taking the Larynx Anatomy Test (Blue arrow)

[9:49] Blue Terminal: This test will make arrows appear around the Larynx in front of you. Fly around the Larynx, find the arrows of the right color and name the corresponding body part.
[9:49] Blue Terminal: Each arrow has a particle trail which will guide you to it in case you shouldn’t be able to find the arrow.

[9:50] Blue Terminal: Type out your answer normally in the main chat. This test is not case sensitive. You have 5 minutes to answer each question before the test gets reset.
[9:50] Blue Terminal: Are you doing the test for practice or for grading?
[9:50] Daneel Ariantho: /5 practice
[9:52] Blue Terminal: Ok, How many questions out of 10 would you like to answer for this test?
[9:52] Daneel Ariantho: /5 2
[9:52] Blue Terminal: 2 question(s), is that correct?
[9:50] Daneel Ariantho: /5 yes
[9:52] Blue Terminal: Thank you, starting the test…
[9:52] Blue Terminal: Question 3.
[9:53] Daneel Ariantho: /5 hyoid bone
[9:56] Blue Terminal: I’m sorry, your answer was incorrect, the right answer would have been ‘Thyroid Gland‘
[9:56] Blue Terminal: Question 1.
[9:57] Daneel Ariantho: /5 thyroid gland
[9:57] Blue Terminal: I’m sorry, your answer was incorrect, the right answer would have been ‘Hyoid Bone‘
[9:57] Blue Terminal: Larynx Anatomy Test (Blue arrow) end results:
[9:57] Blue Terminal: Out of 2 questions, you answered 0 correctly and 2 incorrectly, scoring 0%
[9:57] Blue Terminal: Thank you for participating, have a nice day.

SLURL : Speech-Language & Hearing Science, Second Earth 7 (60, 113, 44)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Second%20Earth%207/67/100/35

Reaction : chemistry 101

    Reaction: Chemistry 101 is created exclusively for Aldrich by Madpea Productions in association with Orange Island.

   Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science and High Technology company. Their biochemical and organic chemical products and kits are used in scientific and genomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of disease and as key components in pharmaceutical and other high technology manufacturing.

    For more info on events at Sigma-Aldrich in SL, visit http://sialisland.wordpress.com

It is a serious game, an ‘interactive mad science game’ where players travel to lab stations at various locations around Aldrich’s sims, and perform unique experiments.    

To help you perform these experiments, you should have received a HUD, a Chemistry Book.Use this book to collect the materials needed for the experiments, as well as for instruction on the experiments themselves.

     You will have to find the 9 hidden stations and materials yourselves. A notecard provide the 9 SLURL : stations and materials are very close to them.

 

The goal of the game is to create a firework.

    About MadPea Productions:
    MadPea Productions is devoted to interactive games in Second Life. Their website at http://www.madpea.com to learn more. All players are registered online  and the statistics on Reaction are included in a  Statistics page on the website. http://www.madpea.com/stats_Reaction.php

Go there , to play this game : SLURL

Respiratory medicine cases by Imperial College London in Second Life

First of all, the CNN video : http://www.shoppingblog.com/cgi-bin/sblog.pl?sblog=3290911

[Doctors train in 'Second Life' 1:11 A British med school is having students learn by treating virtual patients in the online world 'Second Life'. Source: CNN | Added March 27, 2009]

The Imperial College London Sim : his tower, his conference room, his sandbox and … his hospital

It’s this link for the visist : SLURL http://slurl.com/secondlife/Imperial%20College%20London/150/86/27

First of all, you have to register online :

Pr Martyn Partridge :http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/people/m.partridge

is always at his desk.

You can search the right diagnosis on 5 different patients.

First wash your hands, ask patients basis information, perform a first diagnosis (differential diagnosis), and next …

perform some tests, new investigations for a final diagnosis :

The results of the investigations of each patient are in dedicated rooms. Here is the Laboratory.

It’s 5 clinical cases :

1. Pneumonia
2. Anticoagulant
3. Asthma
4. Pneumothorax
5. Lung cancer

It’s summarize in the Patient Management Area with some slides about this clinical cases:

A very easy-to-use simulation : you are helped by a reminder (wear as a badge on you at the entry of this hospital) so you can know all the time at which steps you have taken a break.

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Initial announcement :
Researchers pilot virtual clinic to help train doctors [6 march 2009] http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/news/060309_virtualclinic/

References :

• London Medical Students Train in Second Life Virtual Hospital http://www.ihealthbeat.org/Articles/2009/3/30/London-Medical-Students-Train-in-Second-Life-Virtual-Hospital.aspx
• Medical Students Using Second Life For Training http://www.inquisitr.com/20911/medical-students-using-second-life-for-training/
• Massively – Imperial College London lets students play doctor in Second Life http://www.massively.com/2009/03/30/imperial-college-london-lets-students-play-doctor-in-second-life/
• Unique Medical Simulation in Second Life!
  http://scienceroll.com/2008/08/17/unique-medical-simulation-in-second-life
• Can Second Life help teach doctors to treat patients? http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/30/doctors.second.life/index.html

Monolith – a protein rezzer

 

This week-end, Monolith a new molecular rezzer has been presented at the 2009 Virtual World Best Practice in Education Conference.

http://www.iste-community.org/xn/detail/2280708:Event:15394

It look like a well-known black box :

But it’s a rezzer working like show on this slide :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosefirerising/3388162070/in/set-72157615940384816/

A great work of Erich Bremer (the same name inSL ! – http://www.ebremer.com), Associate Director, Medical Informatics @ School of Medicine, State University at Stony Brook.

But this tool use TOO MANY prims ! It will be better to use it on an opensim !

The website of this tool :
http://secondlife.som.stonybrook.edu

Flux The media of the sim link to : http://www.proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/6tna

 

SLURL :

http://slurl.com/secondlife/SBU%20Medical%20Center/58/26/27

Give me the landmark ! little molecule…

References :

http://slbiology.blogspot.com/2009/01/visit-to-monolith.html

http://piensl.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/monolith-rapid-molecular-visualization-for-second-life/

PIVOTE

PIVOTE (for PREVIEW Immersive Virtual Training Environment) is a virtual learning authoring system for virtual worlds. It was developed as part of the JISC funded PREVIEW project, where it was used to develop training material for Paramedic students at St George’s Hospital and Kingston University.

Although based on the Medbiquitous Virtual Patient standard the feeling of all involved in the project was that the system could be used for any sort of structured learning in virtual worlds. The result was that JISC have funded the creation of PIVOTE – this open source project.

The key point about PIVOTE is that all the structure and information content of an exercise is stored on the web, not in the virtual world.

This means that it is easy to create, and then edit and maintain, courseware INDEPENDENT OF VIRTUAL WORLD. And since even structure and content are separate you can have the same exercise but with different levels of student information – from loads of help and structure for beginners, to minimal information and structure for assessment purposes.

From here you can download all the code you need to use PIVOTE to run your own courses in virtual worlds. From the location in Second Life you can download a starter set of objects, and the Controller, and you can of course create (and hopefully share) your own.

SLURL

PIVOTE supports users in Second Life (and OpenSim) and on the Web, but it is possible to create controllers for other virtual worlds.

An overview of the PREVIEW project, featuring the newly rebuilt Cedars at Coventry University

All images are from Sheetalkavia’s Flickr

Sources :

• The PIVOTE blog
• The website
• Download (on Google Code)
• The press release

Italian Resuscitation Council

The sim Irelore is the official land of the Italian Resuscitation Council, IRC. A land surely not much crowded by those who think Second Life could or should only be a game, but we suggest it the same, since it demonstrates that Linden Lab’s metaverse can be an instrument for important “real” learning activities and not just roleplaying.

It’s for medical doctor medicine hospital cardiac heart and lungs breath simulation.

A group of IRC is also active in Facebook. For information about both inworld activities and those on the social network site, try to contact Biancaluce Robbiani that of IRC Second Life place and is one of the points of reference.

SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Irelore/188/11/32

Reference : http://www.slnn.it/itinerari_in_second_life/irc_island.html

Best healthcare places in Second Life

Ready ! They are ready : 24 landmarks dedicated to healthcare (and some others to chemistry).

2 others on first floor are for SLoodle (for elearning) and ISI (for more web & SL ressources).

Click on it and each landmark provide the teleport landmark and some information about the place in a notecard.

They are all made in the JoKay Wollongong’s style :

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Go to EAHP exhibition website and click on the ‘Teleport now’ button to visit the place.

To help people to visit, the 12 most important are in a free tour HUD.

NMR spectroscopy game in Second Life

NMR spectroscopy is a great method to identify organic molecules and so most of the therapeutic active compound. Very useful in pharmacy.

The NMR spectrum viewer is a SL spectral viewing tool working on Second Nature sims.

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2008/04/nmr-viewer-in-second-life.html

1O months later, this viewer is combined with the Orac molecule rezzer, and ChemSpider Open Data spectra.

Now it’s a game with 5 rounds: the NMR game !

Goal : Five times to find the right molecule of 5 corresponding NMR spectrum displayed

The game is set up on the American Chemical Society sim.

SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/ACS/245/9/25

I LOVE this game ! It work fine.

 The top 15 lists

Reference : Chemistry activities in Second Life

For all details,  have a look at this great post :

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2009/02/nmr-game-on-second-life.html

Therapy and the metaverse : article and event

Mark Kizelshteyn is Chronos Laval inSL. He is a virtual world researcher currently working with Popcha!, a media technology company, on virtual world healthcare initiatives.

The article

He is pleased to announce the publication of his article, Therapy and The Metaverse: Second Life and The Changing Conditions of Therapy For Convalescent and Chronically Ill Users, in Washington University’s Undergraduate Research Digest.

A professionally edited article based on the thesis was published this month in Washington University Undergraduate Research Digest.

Click Here to download a free copy of the article Therapy and Metaverse.

Abstract:
This study examines the therapeutic utility of 3D Massively Multi-User Virtual Environments (MMVE’s), specifically Second Life, for convalescent and chronically ill users. Three major therapy related simulations within Second Life are examined: Dreams, a space for people with autism and neurological conditions; the Heron Sanctuary, a disability haven; and Wheelies, a disability themed nightclub. Since this is an abridged version of my study, only one of the five case studies will be examined as a representative account of virtual therapy. Two main results surfaced through examining the three spaces and their users: a new form of complimentary therapy and a relationship between ‘virtual’ and ‘real’ well-being has been established. The first point explores how virtual worlds provide therapy forms outside of traditional and formalized setting with a medical professional or facilitator. The second point considers how virtual activities and therapies intersect with ‘real’ physical and emotional reactions. This research sheds light on a new frontier of therapeutic activities that facilitate a psychological and physical rehabilitative process through the social virtual environment Second Life.

To see the full journal, Click here.
To purchase a full copy of the academic thesis, Click here.

Link to Article : http://turtlethink.com/2009/01/therapy-and-the-metaverse/

The event

To mark the occasion, on January 22nd at 1 – 2 SLT (PST), Chronos Laval will be doing a brief talk on some of the major themes that were illuminated during the research process. And most of all, he would like to meet those of you I don’t know, answer your questions and start a long term dialogue about the immense opportunities in the therapeutic applications of virtual worlds.
The event will be kicked off by John Lester (Pathfinder Linden), who has been working tirelessly with Linden Labs to promote the healthcare applications of Second Life.

Pathfinder Linden (Image Flickr under CC by Hiro Sheridan)

This event will be hosted by Popcha! at their headquarters : SLURL
The event is under reservation : please ask before @ mark[at]popcha[dot]com . Optionally, with some words about who you are and what you are up to.

Paper Launch:

Therapy and The Metaverse :
Second Life and The Changing Conditions of Therapy For Convalescent and Chronically Ill Users.

When:  Thursday, January 22, 1 – 2 P.M. SLT
Where:  Popcha HQ Sim – SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Popcha/180/238/32

“The Future of Healthcare in Virtual Worlds” : SL5B panel

Flickr Diaporama

When : 02 July 2008 11am SLT

Where :SLURL

The Future of Healthcare in Virtual Worlds
Moderator: Dave Taylor, Imperial College London
SL: Davee Commerce
dave.taylor@imperial.ac.uk

Panel:
John Lester (Pathfinder), Linden Lab
Dan Hoch, Neurologist, Massachussets General Hospital
Dr Maurice Slevin, London Oncology Clinic
Shireen Lewis, Strategic Planning and Innovation, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Maria Toro-Troconis, Senior Learning Technologist, Imperial College London
Victor Cid, Senior Computer Scientist, National Library of Medicine, NIH, HHS
Randy Hinrichs, CEO 2b3d
James Kinross, Surgeon, Imperial College London

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James Kinross, Surgeon, Imperial College London
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