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Wednesday, January 28, 2009  



Virtual Worlds Research Discussion Group
http://vwresearchersgroup.pbwiki.com/

This is a series of meetings held in Second Life for discussing current and planned research projects, methods and methodology. The purpose of this wiki is to advertise upcoming talks and serve as a repository for transcripts, handouts, photos and videos. Anyone can read the wiki but to edit it you need will need to register . The meetings and wiki are organized by Greg Wadley at the University of Melbourne Uni, Deb McCormick at Monash University, and Sabine Lawless-Reljic of San Diego State University. Each meeting has a host, who presents their research and moderates discussion afterwards. Meetings last one hour. We usually schedule for each Tuesday at 2pm SLT, however the day and time can be chosen by the presenter. By moving these around we hope to cover all timezones. Media can be synchronous or asynchronous: each has its pros and cons. The advantages of assembling researchers in a seminar, vs individually reading papers, is real-time q'n'a, during which difficult points can be efficiently thrashed out. We also get to know each other better and build a global research community. The downside of synchronous meetings is scheduling and travel cost. Virtual worlds offer the pros of synchronicity, while minimizing the cons. Their meetings are informal and researchers can comfortably discuss work-in-progress without arduous preparation. And since it's in Second Life, people can attend anonymously. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog. This has been added to Games Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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