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Using Second Life to help mentally impaired people give informed medical consent

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Interesting piece in the Economist about research by Suzanne Conboy-Hill of the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, in collaboration with Imperial College, and using the latter's virtual postgraduate medical school, built in SciLands, a large scale Second Life user community devoted exclusively to science and technology.

The purpose of the research is to establish determine whether or not simulations of this kind can provide an improved way of obtaining informed (and real, rather than led-by-a-nurse) consent.

See also Millions being wasted in a deserted Second Life, October 2007

Posted on 27/06/2009 in News and comment |

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