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Virtual nurse helps counsel patients before their hospital release

Virtual nurse helps counsel patients before their hospital release

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking for a nurse with a calm, patient bedside manner?


Virtual reality games could help bullying victims

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Virtual reality games could help children to escape victimisation and bullying at school, according to researchers at the University of Warwick.


Study finds virtual doctors visits satisfactory for both patients and clinicians

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Travelers book plane tickets online, bank customers can check their accounts at any computer, and busy families can grocery shop online. Someday, even doctor visits could be among the conveniences offered via the Internet. ...


Building real security with virtual worlds

Building real security with virtual worlds

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Advances in computerized modeling and prediction of group behavior, together with improvements in video game graphics, are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore ...


More to Second Life than just sex

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University Health Network's Centre for Innovation in Complex Care (CICC) have found that a wide array of health-related activity occurs in the 3 dimensional virtual world of ...


Virtual solution to driving phobias

Virtual solution to driving phobias

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nervous drivers are being helped to overcome their road phobias by donning Cyclops-style goggles that transport them to a three-dimensional virtual world.


Milling and drilling in cyberspace

Milling and drilling in cyberspace

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Machinists, NC programmers or mechatronics engineers -- trainees in engineering jobs often have to master complex equipment. In the future, trainees will practice and learn milling, turning, drilling and programming ...


New research may save lives in suicide bombings

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Florida Institute of Technology researchers have determined that where a person is standing in a room or other location during a suicide terrorist attack can have a great bearing on survival and injuries.


Virtual maps for the blind

Technology / Software

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The blind and visually impaired often rely on others to provide cues and information on navigating through their environments. The problem with this method is that it doesn't give them the tools to venture out on their own, ...


IBM Creates Software for Holding Face-to-Face Meetings in Virtual Worlds

Technology / Software

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IBM is making it easier for widely dispersed businesspeople to interact and collaborate without the time and expense of in-person meetings.


Research shows avatars can negatively affect users

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although often seen as an inconsequential feature of digital technologies, one's self-representation, or avatar, in a virtual environment can affect the user's thoughts, according to research by a University ...


A first in online gaming: Humans team up with AI software

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 2

Hey, online gamers, artificial intelligence researchers need your help! As part of an international team of researchers, Northwestern University has officially released the first online game in which human players partner ...


Really virtual reality

Really virtual reality

Technology / Hi Tech

created May 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Far from being geeky and exotic, virtual reality could be the key to a new range of innovative products. European researchers and industrialists have come together to build a world-leading ...


Surprising results: Virtual games players stick close to home

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

In the real world, tracking a person's social network -- which could include hundreds of contacts that serve different purposes -- is nearly impossible.


NASA Invites Young People to Take Virtual Space Station Spacewalks

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine the thrill of floating out of the International Space Station and into the emptiness of space and what it would be like to work on the orbiting science laboratory.