[dorkbotsea-blabber] Fwd: Doing cognitive science in Second Life: presentation this Wednesday, 4pm

[eldan]

Second Life is starting to be taken seriously as a venue for teaching  
classes and for actually conducting research:

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> From: "Peter M. Todd" <pmtodd at INDIANA.EDU>
> Date: Mon,Feb 5, 2007 2:43:08 PM
> To: COGNOSCENTE at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU
> Subject: Doing cognitive science in Second Life: presentation this  
> Wednesday, 4pm
> Reply-To: "Peter M. Todd" <pmtodd at INDIANA.EDU>
>
> Hello, Cognitive Scientists looking for an interesting new venue in  
> which to conduct studies....  This week as part of the Q400  
> Cognitive Science Senior Seminar capstone course, we will have a  
> presentation on using Second Life to do cognitive science  
> experiments, and we're opening up this session for all interested  
> local folks to attend (and, indeed, for interested non-local folks  
> as well--we'll be recording and podcasting this session afterwards  
> from the Cognitive Science website).  On Wednesday (Feb. 7), at 4pm  
> in Psychology room 111 (lasting til 5:30 or beyond), Mitja Hmeljak,  
> a graduate student in Computer Science, will give us a presentation  
> on how to do experiments in Second Life.  During the class session,  
> Mitja will introduce us to SL and the SL scripting language, talk  
> about existing experiments currently being done in SL (not many,  
> though there are other forms of research being done), describe a  
> new experiment he's setting up with Rob Goldstone on foraging, and  
> discuss other possibilities for more studies that can be done.   
> Please join us if you're interested!
> If you'd like to prepare for this session, you can make a free  
> account (just need an email address) on SL and try it out,  
> including teleporting to Campus:Second Life island and having a  
> look around the IU CogSci region in the NE corner.  You can also  
> have a look at the following resources:
>
> Ondrejka paper is a chapter in the following book (but some other  
> chapters are also interesting):
> http://wwwfaculty.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/dcc04/workshops/ 
> workshopnotes7.pdf
>
> Linden Scripting Language introduction (wiki):
> http://rpgstats.com/wiki/index.php?title=LSL101Chapter1
>
> about the Campus: Second Life program:
> http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Campus:Second_Life
>
> some other classes being taught in SL:
> http://www.library.ohiou.edu/sllc/index.php/Main_Page
>
>
>   cheers,
>    Peter Todd


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