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Second Life Research (Blog)
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Public Diplomacy and Virtual Worlds
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Public Diplomacy and Virtual Worlds
My goal in this paper will be to describe how "virtual worlds" can facilitate intercultural dialogue among various groups; how new actors have emerged in and around the scope of virtual worlds that serve to enhance and expand on the intents of public diplomacy. How unintentional public diplomacy efforts, private sector leadership in the form of the virtual world ?Second Life? are redefining the rules and iterations of a 21st Century Public Diplomacy.
Virtual worlds, traditionally, but not exclusively constructed through massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), function as communication networks in three different ways:?

Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
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A meta-analysis of the training effectiveness of virtual reality surgical simulators
The increasing use of virtual reality (VR) simulators in surgical training makes it imperative that definitive studies be performed to assess their training effectiveness.
Indeed, in this paper we report the meta-analysis of the efficacy of virtual reality simulators in: 1) the transference of skills from the simulator training environment to the operating room, and 2) their ability to discriminate between the experience levels of their users.

The training effectiveness of virtual reality surgical simulators
http://tinyurl.com/589c44
A meta-analysis of the training effectiveness of virtual reality surgical simulators
The increasing use of virtual reality (VR) simulators in surgical training makes it imperative that definitive studies be performed to assess their training effectiveness.
Indeed, in this paper we report the meta-analysis of the efficacy of virtual reality simulators in: 1) the transference of skills from the simulator training environment to the operating room, and 2) their ability to discriminate between the experience levels of their users.