healthcare

Examining healthcare in virtual worlds

Despite the constraints of a very formal, academic style imposed at the Journal of Medical Internet Research, Margaret Hansen, of San Francisco School of Nursing has done a cracking job of overviewing virtual healthcare. The paper is Second Life-centric, and doesn't draw any firm conclusions on the effectiveness of virtual worlds in healthcare enducation but it does provide a good list of project examples as well as detailing some of the relevant theories attached to 3D learning environments.

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