Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
Table of Contents
Issue Editors' 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 |
Assembled (rush to press papers)
| 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 |
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