MHI class on Virtual Reality, Simulation & Robotics, Master's in Health Informatics Program, UC Davis with Alberto Odor, MD and the research of Peter Yellowlees MD. Workshop by Bernadette Daly Swanson, MLIS / HVX Silverstar in the very beautiful Second Life. Powerpoint Includes section on locating peer reviewed research on virtual worlds at UC Davis. Where's the Peer Reviewed Research? Health Sciences Libraries, University of California, Davis (winter 2011). Music: Benediction by Lynne Publishing (Revostock.com). Creative Commons Attribution License. Please share.

1. Workshop on Virtual Worlds:
Second Life & OpenSim

2. Open your Second Life Viewer 2 & login!
Accept your invitation to the UC Davis group in the IM &
notifications tab that is located at the lower right side of
screen.
You will also receive a landmark for the private Davis and
Prophylaxis Islands (or use the links from the blog on next
screen to reach the islands).
Note: you can use this same username & password to log
into the Second Life web site to set up account to
purchase money or land or the paid account in order to
lease land.
Login & accept invitation

3. Ben’s Blog: Library Studios with links to Second Life
locations for Health Informatics workshop:
http://machinimalibrarians.blogspot.com
Using SLurls from the web to reach
the Second Life web based map server
http://maps.secondlife.com
Davis Island (private island). Clicking on the orange
visit button launches the Second Life Viewer 2 on
your computer.
Second Life Quickstart Guide (help with the
user interface.
Use Slurls from Web or map server to reach Davis Island

4. World Map available in Second Life Viewer
(World | World map) or on the web. Mini local map also available in SL viewer.
World Map

5. arwaziad
Avatar names for VR, Simulation & Robotics
Avatar names for the class

6. Instructions upon logging in

7. Virtual Worlds: simulations and
research
Simulations & Research

8. Virtual Worlds
Second Life & the opensource
OpenSimulator (OpenSim)

9. Journal of Virtual World Research
Health & Healthcare (vol. 2, no. 2)
Wikipedia & Journal of Virtual
World Research

10. Persistent 3 Spaces

11. Over 22 million accounts (1
million in 2007)

12. Simulating an area 2069.30 km2
=8 times the size of San
Francisco

13. www.gridsurvey.com
www.gridsurvey.com

14. US$ 1,398,663.00
Transactions in the past 24 hours

15. 31,575 Regions!!

16. LSL script wiki
C++ application on Linux OS / LSL
& C# scripting on Mono

17. Server Architecture, 2009

18. Opensource viewer

19. OpenSimulator

20. Gartner Hype Cycle 1987 - 2012

21. Second Life public grid and
enterprise server in a box version

22. Host your own Opensimulator
www.opensimulator.org

23. OpenSim on a USB drive (run on
your own computer – not
networked)
Install OpenSim on a USB drive

24. Viewer & Server Stacks with
Simulators

25. Build your own Slurl at www.slurl.com
SLurl

26. The avatar will see you now –
24/7

27. Research in Virtual Worlds – see UC
Davis Institutional Review Board
IRB site at UC Davis

28. Collaboration across disciplines
& peer reviewed journal
literature

29. Education pre-
conference
www.slconvention.org
Education pre-conference, annual
Second Life Community Conference.

30. 2010 – Web Beta & MESH import
from third party 3D programs or
Google 3D Warehouse (Collada -
.dae) files.

31. Getting into SL as guest using the
web beta (Safari browser or Firefox,
etc.)

32. Mesh file import on mesh beta
grid

33. Technologies Forward.. What’s
ahead?
HTML5 demo – Try out some of the new features
interactive browser support, video, 3D & data through APIs

34. MHI214 Class: The Internet & the future of
MHI214 Class, 2009- 2010 with
UC Davis Extension

35. Searching for Virtual Palomar West hospital in
Finding Virtual Palomar West
hospital in the SL viewer search
function

36. Building demo & rezzing 3D objects from
inventory
Building demo & rezzing 3D
objects from inventory

37. Real World Coffee Break

38. Ahhhhh! Health Sciences Libraries –
Where is the peer reviewed
literature?
Health Sciences Libraries
Where is the peer reviewed
literature?

39. Health Sciences Libraries homepage
& All libraries home page
University Library
www.lib.ucdavis.eduHealth Sciences Libraries
www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl

40. VPN (virtual private network)
logon from off campus
VPN to login from off campus
(if in Citrix, open a new browser window for VPN)

41. Logging in through the VPN –
Subject Guides (Computer Science &
Medicine, professional)
Choose Subject Guides: Computer Science or Medicine

42. Using Medical Subject Headings
(MESH) in PubMed database
Choose PUBMED (National Library of Medicine) from the
Databases A-Z list or from the Health Sciences Library
Search using MESH terms:
User-Computer Interface
Education, Nursing
Schizophrenia, etc.

43. Journal article by Peter Yellowlees,
MD: Using the gold UC-eLinks to
locate the article through the UC
Davis journal subscriptions
Pubmed Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18386971
UC-eLinks: UCeLinks (gold button top right side) to view UC Davis subscription to journal

44. User-computer interface subject heading
MESH (medical subject headings) shown: user-computer
interface nursing teaching public health

45. Using Computer Science
database: IEEEXplore
Using IEEEXplore on Computer Science
Subject Guide
for articles on virtual worlds
Log into VPN if off campus
Locate full results via IEEEXplore database full search results: first
log into VPN if off campus
find via Google Scholar (uc davis) Via Google Scholar

46. Setting your Google Scholar
preferences to work with UC Davis
subscriptions and EndNote
Google Scholar Preferences (scholar
preferences)

47. Using the UC Davis Harvest
catalog to locate 616 items!
Harvest Catalog search:
616 results for subject headings616 results for subject headings "shared virtual environments" OR "Second Life""shared virtual environments" OR "Second Life"
OR "virtual reality"; Sorted by YearOR "virtual reality"; Sorted by Year

48. Downloadable hyperlinked powerpoint available on
Slideshare.com
Watch the workshop's visual track on YouTube
Health Informatics website UC Davis Medical Center
Hands-on Workshop for:
Virtual Reality, Simulation & Robotics Course
Alberto Odor, MD & research of Peter Yellowlees, MD
, MLIS