Research in Second Life

Research in Second Life Dr. Cynthia Calongne Colorado Technical University October 27, 2007 Copyright Cynthia M. Calongne, 2007. Permission is granted for this material to be shared under a Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 3.0 United States. You are free to copy, distribute, display, perform, remix and make derivative works. Attribute the work to Cynthia M. Calongne and distribute it with a similar or compatible license.

Agenda
Trivia Questions
Statistics and Terminology
Research
Education
CTU Classes
Second Life Research Links

Trivia 1 - Game and Television On which program was Svarga recently featured?

Svarga Svarga, a primitive life simulation created by Laukosargas Svarog, a Lionhead game studio developer who also worked on the game Black & White with Peter Molyneux

Trivia 1 Answer

Gartner
By 2011
80% of the world’s active Internet users will be in a virtual world
Also Fortune 500 enterprises, re: Reuters
Over 330 million active Internet home users in March 2007 -- Nielsen ratings
Business Issues
Security
Branding and staffing a virtual world presence

Terminology in Second Life
Avatar
representation of self
Island
simulator or region
Object
linked set of prims
Prim, primitive
a shape you build
RL - Real Life
Rez
to render a 3D object
drag from inventory or Build menu to the ground
Sim
simulator or region
SL - Second Life

Avatars and Roleplay

October 2007
Prior to CSI: NY on 10/24/07
Over 2 X the size of San Francisco
Over 10,419,158 accounts in Second Life
Over 51,000 simultaneous logins
Every day - > 120,000 people log into SL
August average user - 23.6 hours per week
March 2007 - over US $15 million per month
10/26/07 $1.1 million spent in 24 hrs

Hot Research Topics
Software interoperability
Research and Web 2.0 integration
Robots and AI
Education
Integration between virtual worlds
Math, science and Google search
Behaviors
Teaching and learning in a virtual world

Virtual World Interoperability

Dr Dobbs - Researchers Discuss Interoperability

Research
Virtual Hallucinations
U of CA at Davis
U of Queensboro
Schizophrenia
Survey instrument
Seifert Surface
Knot and fractal theory
Crooked House
Seifert Surface - Math in SL
http://www.segerman.org/2ndlife.html
Dr. John Bransford
Center for Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (LIFE)
Cooperation to navigate a maze -- we sit above, gazing at media screens with slides appear
Avatars sit above the maze looking at slides

Virtual Hallucinations University of Queensboro University of Calif, Davis Survey Instrument in SL Voices and Perception

Seifert Surface’s Research

Trivia 2 Math
What is a Tesseract?
Which popular science fiction author wrote about it?
Hint: A dozen authors wrote about it, but this one is no stranger to it...

Modeling the Problem

Crooked House You never run out of house as it rolls over while you walk

Trivia 2 Answers
What is a Tesseract?
Which popular science fiction author wrote about it? A dozen wrote about it!
Look at examples!
A 4-dimensional hypercube
Robert Heinlein in “And He Built a Crooked House”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract

Cooperation Theory We sit above, seeing the maze and the demonstration viewers

SL Research
VITAL Lab -- Software Engineering Process Game and more
http://vital.cs.ohiou.edu/vitalwiki/index.php/Second_Life_Development
Eric McLuhan on animation and the Egyptian silhouette
Conferences and Symposiums

Eric McLuhan in SL

Robotics at CTU Student, instructor and Big Robot on Campus group robots

CTU Exhibits - August 2007

MacArthur Foundation in SL Philip Linden, CEO of Linden Lab Meets with the MacArthur Foundation

Real and Virtual Meetings NMC Symposium, Lyr Lobo queries the MacArthur Foundation

Acheron LV426 Experimental Design Space by Lyr Lobo

Trivia 3 -- The Movies
What science fiction movie features Acheron LV426?
Who lived at Joyous Garde?
Hint: there were four movies in the series.
Hint: John Cleese played him in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail

1st NMC Teachers Buzz

Education in Second Life
Thompson NETg
Teen Tutorials
from the Ivory Tower of Primitives - Lumiere Noir
Ramapo - 400 8th graders
Of Mice and Men
CTU Classes
CS 672 Systems Engineering Methods
CS 641 Software Requirements Engineering
CS 382 Software Design
CS 835 Robotics

Thomson NETg in SL Presenting video stream with Thomson NETg online course content

8th Graders Learn to Design

Teens and Immersive Literature Of Mice and Men in the courtroom

Colorado Tech Island

CTU Boardwalk in SL

CTU Classroom and Workspace Dementasia - CTU experimental design space by Lyr Lobo

CTU Class - 1st Day in SL

Robotics Class Projects R obots by CTU doctoral students and Lyr Lobo on Acheron LV426

Virtual Office Hours

Communication in Second Life Left to right Teleport Group Notice 2nd row Voice Chat (*) Instant Message URLs embedded

Star - Basketball - Water Park The student designed, textured, linked and scripted her star project the first two hours in SL Havok physics challenged basketball project; phantom water park

Evolution - CS 672 to CS 641 Evolution of a Merry Go Round - a study in state machines

CS 641 Projects Evolution of a Ferris wheel -- on right, has a rotation problem

CS 641 - Portable Duck Shoot Score & ducks reset with push button control; Colorado Tech island

CS 641 Eliciting Requirements DART Dementasia Aerial Rapid Transit

CS 641 Requirements Projects Student designed monorail system with menu and stations

The Effects of Roleplay in Class The monorail evolved into a rollercoaster and went underwater after the customer requirements changed during roleplay.

Monorail Goes Underwater then Becomes a Rollercoaster Physics is enabled at the end, sending the car and riders rolling & plunging into the water. Scott Radel specified an attraction called The Thing in the Water

Learning Communities Bridging two CTU classes together with the monorail

Team Project by 12 Students The game maze sits 300 meters above Lyr Lobo’s Dementasia

A Capture the Flag PVP Maze Game I survived the Maze Game shirts Traps and Scoreboard PvP capture-the-flag game set in a maze filled with traps

Educational Opportunities
Collaboration and community
Extracurricular events
Cultural venues
SL groups, including educational networks
Educational news
Learning extends beyond the classroom
Student services and union board activities
Music, dance, art
Real Life Education in Second Life
NMC Guests
www.nmc.org/sl
SL in Education listserv
SLED Picayune

Art Gallery Photo by Jeff Hiles

Dragons at Elf Circle Tolkienesque fantasy roleplay in a creative community

Dance - Important in SL Culture Elf Circle’s First Anniversary Celebration

Art Exhibit - StarAx Sculptures One day exhibit at the NMC Symposium October 2006

Launch at the Int’l Space Museum Notice an avatar floating overhead as the flight crew prepares to launch

Second Life and CSI: NY

SL Research Links
Research in Second Life presentation
http://www. slideshare .net/ lyrlobo / research -in-second-life
Artificial Intelligence in SL
http://web.bvu.edu/faculty/schweller/
TCC Preconference Wiki -- SL from a Flash drive tips
http://tccpre-conference.pbwiki.com/
Libsecondlife -- programming tools
http://www.libsecondlife.org/wiki/Main_Page
LSL Wiki -- programming tools
http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=HomePage
Edumuve
http://edumuve.com/tour/ and http://edumuve.com/blended/

SL Research Links 2
Second Life http://secondlife.com/ http://secondlifegrid.net/
National Public Radio’s Science Friday in SL
http://www.sciencefriday.com/
NMC Campus Observer
http://sl.nmc.org/
NOAA’s Traffic Analysis
http://mayarealities.com/
Best Practices in SL
http://www.slcn.tv/bpe-lyr-lobo
Annotated Bibliograophy of SL Educational Resources
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mpepper/slbib

SL Research Links 3
Second Life as a Virtual Learning Environment
http://www.dokimos.org/secondlife/education/index.html
An Educational Tour of Second Life
http://www. slideshare .net/ lyrlobo /an-educational-tour-of-second-life
A View from Second Life’s Trenches: Are you a Pioneer or a Settler?
http://sl.nmc.org/2007/06/09/pioneer-or-settler/
Leveraging the Affordances, Minimizing the Barriers of Virtual Worlds
http://sl.nmc.org/2007/06/09/edu-panel/
LearnScope in Second Life
http://www. slideshare .net/ lyrlobo / learnscope -in-second-life

SL Research Links 4
Using Second Life
www. educause . edu / ir /library/ powerpoint /SAC07025A. pps
Beyond Course Management Tools: Second Life
www. educause . edu / ir /library/ powerpoint /SAC07014. pps
Virtual worlds in Online Education: Are You Ready to Teach in Second Life?
http://www.telecoop.org/conference/materials/CalogneTeachinginSecondLife.ppt
What Can We Learn from World of Warcraft & Second Life?
http://archive.nmc.org/events/2006fallregional/materials/calongne.ppt
SL Podcast by Bayne, Walker and Calongne
http://connect.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/podcastusingsecondli/44967?time=1188754831

SL Research Links 5
Who’s on Second? Educational Podcasts
http://www.rabble.ca/rpn/podcast.php?id=wos
Second Life Development -- VITAL Lab
http://vital.cs.ohiou.edu/vitalwiki/index.php/Second_Life_Development
Suffern Middle School in Second Life
http://rampoislands.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html
Second Life Library 2.0
http://www.infoisland.org/drupal/ and http://www.myspace.com/73899784
Second Life Education Wiki
http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki

SL Research Links 6
Secondary Worlds
http://secondaryworlds.com/
Reuters -- Doors to open on Google Virtual world(s)?
http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2007/10/24/doors-to-open-on-google-virtual-worlds/
SL and Google Earth are Transforming the Idea of Architectural Collaboration
http://archrecord.construction.com/features/digital/archives/0701dignews-2.asp
Timeline - History of Second Life Wiki
http://secondlife.wikia.com/index.php/Second_Life_Through_The_Ages
UberNoggin: Big Brains - Big Ideas
http://www.ubernoggin.com/

SL Research Links 7 News
Reuters in Second life
http://secondlife.reuters.com/
The SL Newspaper
http://www.sl-newspaper.com/
Second Life Herald
http://www.secondlifeherald.com/
Metaverse Messenger
http://metaversemessenger.com/index.html
SLNN
http://www.slnn.com/index.php

SL Research Links 8
New Worlds Notes
http://nwn.blogs.com/
SL A Virtual Universe for Real Engineering
http://www.designnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6490691
Just Virtual
http://www.justvirtual.com/index.php/category/second-life/
Seifert Surface - Math in Second Life
http://www.segerman.org/2ndlife.html

Research in Second Life Lyr Lobo in Second Life Ryl Redgrave on the Teen Grid at Ramapo [email_address] For more information, contact

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