Collaboration Opportunities in Second Life:- Collective Experiences

Author

Hansen, Steve ; Griffith, Sharon ; Ademagic, Miko ; Armitage, Chris ; Faulkner, Tim ; Gavrilovic, Nemanja ; Lock, Lawrence ; Miltiadis, Simone ; Ramnath, Pranav ; Turdush, Malik ; Sebastian, Rob ; Whitaker, Matt ; Hansen, Chris

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Math., Univ. of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

114

Lastpage

119

Abstract

This paper presents the results and experiences of 2 groups of Australian undergraduate students in developing in-world collaborative projects in Second Life. One project developed an in-world ICT-Networking teaching environment and the other group developed a health-information learning experience. Besides undertaking the actual "virtual-world" projects, the students also recorded a journal of their individual social and related experiences. This paper presents findings on both the development of applications in the Second Life medium along with the personal impact this medium has on its users.

Keywords

avatars; computer aided instruction; teaching; Australian undergraduate students; Second Life; collaboration opportunities; health-information learning experience; in-world ICT-networking teaching environment; in-world collaborative projects; Australia; Avatars; Buildings; Collaboration; Education; Mathematics; Navigation; Psychology; Second Life; Social network services; avatars; second life; virtual worlds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Automation for Sustainability, 2008. ICIAFS 2008. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Colombo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2899-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2900-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIAFS.2008.4783940

Filename

4783940