Posted in Education, Medicine, Virtual Life, tagged cognition, ElderGames, elderly, rehabilitation, therapy on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
European researchers have built a computerized play platform for elderly people. Field testing shows that the system keeps elderly players mentally sharp, stimulates socialisation, and can alert caregivers to developing problems.
The key “generic” objective of ElderGames project is to develop IST-based games using advanced visualisation and interaction interfaces with high preventive, [...]
Posted in Medicine, Virtual Worlds, tagged burns, Christopher Maani, David Patterson, Hunter Hoffman, Sigmund Leominster, Snow World, therapy, Virtual World on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood and five other burn centers in the nation has been trialing a form of treatment that uses a virtual world called Snow World. The purpose is to provide burn patients with a way of reducing pain without the need for drugs.
Snow World was created at the University of [...]
Posted in Medicine, Virtual Life on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Although the Chinese government wants to control internet use by its citizens, it does recognize that some people can become addicted spending time in the virtual world. Chinese psychologist, Tao Ran, runs an addiction center at a military base just outside of Beijing.
Surprisingly, research suggests that China has the world’s largest number of internet users [...]
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