Areas of interest

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Areas of interest

• Research
• New and existing Informatics research applied to
  virtual worlds
• Entrepreneurship Teaching
• E-learning and in-world education
• Outreach
• Public interaction, promoting Informatics
• Commercialisation
• Working with industrial partners on in-world
  projects

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• The Informatics Forum

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Current Work

• Second Life used as the current platform for
  virtual world research
• Creation of external tools and assets which can
  be imported into world
• Active AIAI virtual world grid running internally
• Two active research projects with industrial
  partners

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• Virtual World of Whisky
• Project

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Virtual World of Whisky

• Collaborative systems applied to tutorial
  environments for whisky tasting
• Connecting virtual world to physical environment
• Virtual tour of Scotlands whisky regions
• E-learning tour guide
• Intelligent agents

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Virtual Collaboration Centre
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The Virtual Collaboration Centre

• Collaborative research project with SLAM Games
• Infrastructure to support collaborative work and
  play
• Environment to assist games development
• Games lobby to create gamer community
• Applying existing AIAI technology to Second Life

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The Future

• More collaboration across Academia, Industry and
  Community
• Building a technology asset bank for virtual
  environments
• Virtual Scotland
• Commercial island for working on commercial
  projects with Entrepreneurs, SMEs and larger
  industry
• Applying research to commercial ventures