An introduction to the virtual world of Second Life and the open access OpenSimulator environments for the UC Davis MHI214 & MHI289h classes: Fall 2011 The Internet and the Future of Patient Care with Peter Yellowlees, MD Virtual Reality, Simulation & Robotics with Alberto Odor, MD. With Second Life orientation, and interactivity with the very beautiful Second Life, James Cook, MD & Bernadette Daly Swanson, MLIS. Health Sciences Libraries, University of California Davis.

1. Simulations & Research

2. Open your Second Life Viewer 2 & login!
If you’re on a Mac:
use Imprudence Viewer
For the academic avatars of the MHI214 & MHI289h Classes at University of California Davis
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.
https://id.secondlife.com/openid/login

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.

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

5. arwaziad
Avatar names for VR, Simulation & Robotics course

7. Virtual Worlds

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

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

11. 26

13. http://www.gridsurvey.com

14. Over US$ 1,000,000.00 ??

15. 31,417 Regions (Nov. 2, 2011)

16. LSL script wiki

22. Host your own Opensimulator

23. Install OpenSim on a USB drive

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

27. IRB site at UC Davis

29. Education pre-conference
www.slconvention.org

33. MHI214 Class: The Internet & the future of patient care

34. Searching for Virtual Palomar West hospital in viewer

35. Building demo & rezzing 3D objects from inventory
Visit Library Studios 2 where we did building demo and pulled out houses from inventory, etc.

36. University Library
www.lib.ucdavis.edu
Where is the peer reviewed
literature
on Virtual Worlds?
Across the disciplines
Health Sciences Libraries
Medicine, Nursing, Informatics,
Engineering, Sociology, Psychology,
Education, Biomedical & Computer Science
Ask a Librarian…

37. University Library
www.lib.ucdavis.eduHealth Sciences Libraries
www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl

38. VPN to login from off campus
(if in Citrix, open a new browser window for VPN)

39. Choose Subject Guides: Computer Science or Medicine

40. PUBMED
(National Library of Medicine)
from the Databases A-Z list or
Health Sciences Library homepage
Search queries to use in PubMed
“User-Computer Interface”[MAJR] AND (virtual environment OR second life)
See Related articles link too

41. Choose PUBMED (National Library of Medicine) from the Databases A-Z list
or from the Health Sciences Library homepage
Search using MESH terms:
User-Computer Interface
Education, Nursing
Schizophrenia, etc.

42. 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

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

44. Using IEEEXplore on Computer Science Subject Guide
for articles on virtual worlds
“Second Life” OR “virtual worlds” AND (“server architecture” OR healthcare)
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

45. Google Scholar Preferences (scholar preferences)
to work with University of California Davis & Endnote

46. Harvest Catalog search:
616 results for subject headings "shared virtual environments" OR "Second Life" OR
"virtual reality"; Sorted by Year

47. Downloadable hyperlinked powerpoint available on
Slideshare.com
Watch the workshop's visual track on YouTube
Health Informatics website UC Davis Medical Center
MHI214 & MHI289h – Fall 2011
Virtual Reality, Simulation & Robotics Course
Alberto Odor, MD
& research of Peter Yellowlees, MD
University of California Davis.
, MLIS