Map of UK science activity in virtual worlds

As you may know the British Science Festival is being held in Birmingham during 14-19 September. Since it’s taking place in our home city Daden has teamed up with the BSF organisers and Aston University to create a directory and map of UK science activity in virtual worlds. For Second Life projects the centrepiece will be an interactive copy of the Second Life map within Second Life itself, with teleports to the projects themselves. For other projects (and non-SL users), all projects will be listed on a web based directory.

Getting your project/institution listed is dead simple – just visit www.daden.co.uk/bsf/ and follow the link to the entry form – it should only take a minute or so to complete. We are interested in how virtual worlds are being used both for science research and for science education/communication/outreach. For our purposes a virtual world means a space which is a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE), with each user being represented by an avatar who can communicate and interact in-world, and where there is a shared sense of place and time.

We are also looking for some good images to illustrate the project page – so please add a link to a good image as part of your form submission.

We hope to run a virtual safari as a fringe event as part of the Festival – if you’d like to take part in that then please let us know.

If possible please make your entry by 10th September so that we can get the map ready for the opening of the Festival.

Many thanks and we hope you can find the time to participate. If there is enough interest we hope to keep the directory and map running permanently as a resource for virtual world users and researchers.

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Andrew Jinman
PIVOTE Product Manager
Daden Limited

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