Posts Relating To: psychology

Initial Impressions of SL Viewer 2.0

So the next iter­a­tion of Second Life viewer has come along, and it’s look­ing mar­velous! I’m actu­ally really impressed. Here’s my quick run down of Linden Lab’s new mon­ster.
What it has…
Aes­thet­ics
The new cli­ent looks abso­lutely mar­velous. Yup I know that sounds like a fairly unim­port­ant thing to talk about, but actu­ally it isn’t. How pleas­ing a GUI …

February 25, 2010 – 1:11 am | By Aaron | Posted in Reviews, Thoughts, second life | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

Do you Collaborate in Second Life? Interviewees Needed

As part of my ongo­ing PhD pro­ject, I’m look­ing to inter­view around a dozen or so people about how they use Second Life to col­lab­or­ate with oth­ers on pro­jects. I’m using a very loose defin­i­tion of col­lab­or­a­tion here, which could include things like gen­eral meet­ings, work­ing on products, organ­ising events, land admin­is­tra­tion, present­a­tions, per­form­ances, even …

January 19, 2010 – 9:49 pm | By Aaron | Posted in research, second life | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

Second Life as a Product of the Mind

Back in the 1970s, towards the end of the research flurry where com­mu­nic­a­tion sys­tems were being heav­ily stud­ied by both the Brit­ish Post Office and the US Gov­ern­ment, Short and col­leagues (1977) made refer­rence to an idea they termed social pres­ence. Their the­ory was that all forms of com­mu­nic­a­tion var­ied in the degree to which …

January 8, 2010 – 1:33 pm | By Aaron | Posted in research, second life | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

Virtual World Research

Up until now, most of my blog posts have been fairly opin­ion­ated errr… reflec­tions on vari­ous things, events, etc. Don’t get me wrong, I love writ­ing these things — and I have every inten­tion on car­ry­ing on with them — but for a blog that was ori­gin­ally meant to be about research it’s kind of …

January 7, 2010 – 5:45 pm | By Aaron | Posted in Site Related | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

A Tale of Two Avatars

I’ve made no secret of the fact that my avatar, Az After­thought, was made espe­cially for my Second Life research. His pre­de­cessor, Aaron, was born some eight months earlier when a friend man­aged to con­vince me to sign up. Since cre­at­ing Az how­ever, Aaron has barely been used at all — I still login as …

December 8, 2009 – 1:23 am | By Aaron | Posted in Thoughts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)