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Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
Vol. 2, No. 2 – 3D Virtual Worlds for Health and Healthcare
Editor’s Corner
Musings on the State of ‘3-D Virtual Worlds for Health and Healthcare’ in 2009
Maria Toro-Troconis, Maged N. Kamel Boulos
Invited Articles
Virtual Worlds in Health Care Higher Education
Constance M Johnson, Allison A Vorderstrasse, Ryan Shaw
Peer Reviewed Research Papers
The Growth and Direction of Healthcare Support Groups in Virtual Worlds
John Robert Norris
Development of a Virtual Reality Coping Skills Game to Prevent Post-Hospitalization Smoking Relapse in Tobacco Dependent Cancer Patients
Paul Krebs, Jack Burkhalter, Shireen Lewis, Tinesha Hendrickson, Ophelia Chiu, Paul Fearn, Wendy Perchick, Jamie Ostroff
Does this Avatar Make Me Look Fat? Obesity and Interviewing in Second Life
Elizabeth Dean, Sarah Cook, Michael Keating, Joe Murphy
Research Papers
Development and Evaluation of Health and Wellness Exhibits at the Jefferson Occupational Therapy Education Center in Second Life
Susan Toth-Cohen, Therese Gallagher
Research-in-Brief Papers
Development of Virtual Patient Simulations for Medical Education
Douglas R Danforth, Mike Procter, Richard Chen, Mary Johnson, Robert Heller
“Think Pieces”
Virtual Worlds, Collective Responses and Responsibilities in Health
Rashid M Kashani, Anne Roberts, Ray Jones, Maged N. Kamel Boulos
Pitfalls in 3-D Virtual Worlds Health Project Evaluations: The Trap of Drug-trial-style Media Comparative Studies
Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Inocencio Maramba
Towards a virtual doctor-patient relationship: Understanding virtual patients.
Vanessa Gamboa González
Editor-in-Chief’s Corner
Cultural Identity in Virtual Reality (VR): A Case Study of a Muslim Woman with hijab in Second Life(SL)
Methal Mohammed
Shaping the ‘Public Sphere’ in Second Life: Architectures of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
Annabel Jane Wharton