http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife weblog Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:40:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife/2010/02/02/new-vido/ Accurate selection of exposure factors when x-raying patients is of vital importance to ensure repeat exposures are not required. Due to the use of ionising radiation it is not possible for students to currently practice giving people a range of exposures to see what effect manipulation of exposure factors would ... http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife/2009/12/18/radiographic-exposure-manipulation-in-the-virtual-environment/ A little sampler video sequence to show our work on connecting "Second Life" avatar-patient-bots with specially written AIML [artificial intelligence markup language] and speech synthesis software. Hopefully we'll add speech recognition too ;-) This project is being used with Nurse Practitioner students. However it could be used for a number ... http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife/2009/11/02/aiml-test-bot-colin-the-virtual-patient/ This was a small scale qualitative evaluation of the lecturers’ (researchers’) and students’ experience of using Second Life in order to learn decision-making. Students assumed Avatars (a student nurse image in Second Life) and accessed the Clinical Simulation Laboratory within Second Life following changing into nursing uniform. They ... http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife/2009/09/16/exploring-nursing-students%e2%80%99-decision-making-while-in-a-second-life-clinical-simulation-laboratory-dr-jacqueline-mccallum-val-ness-theresa-price-andy-whiteford/ This is Colin. He is a virtual patient Bot who can talk. He is used to help qualified nurses to take a diagnostic patient history. He also has embedded heart sounds in his chest. The students can click on his chest in the correct anatomical position to hear the heart ... http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife/2009/09/16/taking-a-patient-history-from-a-patient-bot/ [caption id="attachment_16" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Someof our patient bots"][/caption] http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife/2009/09/16/some-of-our-patient-bots/ Welcome to Glasgow Caledonian SOH - Virtual Worlds blog. This blog will be used to share the experiences and projects the School of Health are undertaking in Second Life and other virtual worlds. Second Life® and Linden Lab® are trademarks or registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc. All rights reserved. http://caledonianblogs.net/soh-secondlife/2009/09/02/hello-world/