A presentation I gave to a research methods class at UofF in Second Life.

1. Researching In Virtual Worlds Mark Bell PhD Student Indiana University Synthetic Worlds Initiative

2. Mark Bell Indiana University Synthetic Worlds Initiative Social Networks Virtual World Experimentation Author of “Second Life For Dummies”

4. Virtual Congress Londontown

5. A new tool for research

10. No tried and true platform for creating a world Multiverse NeverWinter Nights Second Life Metaplace

11. Academic investigator vs. Fulltime development team

13. Arden 2

14. Four approaches Little Experiments Creation of New, Vast Worlds Observation of Natural Experiments Co-creation with Commercial Sector

15. Surveys Content Analysis Experiments

16. Current Work

17. Future Work dusk