searching for health info in second life

Searching for Health Info from within

Second Life

Interoperability and Search SL & the Web

Dreams Fair 2008

Closing The Gap interoperability & searchSecond Life & The Web

Lightning Talk by Guus van den Brekel, Central Medical Library University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)

My job

It is my job to develop & deliver library services in my user’s workflow

I let them decide WHAT workflow

I am sure about nothing, butam expecting anything

And in Second LIfe

Namro Orman

Working on & from healthInfo Island

• on SL Medical Library• on Interactivity & Search• on blogging from within SL• on Consumer Health Information Project• on Accessibility Center Project• on Virtual Ability Project• on keeping up on health stuff in SL• .....

Some snapshots ....

Covering Tonight ...

• SL Search in general• Search Tools in SL• Health (Information) in SL

SL Search In General

• New Search FAQ• Tips for Producing Better Search Results and Rele

vance• Second Life Search Toolbar :

http://secondlifesearch.blogspot.com• Second Life Search (Islab Outside SL!)• HealthInfoisland Toolbar

http://healthinfoisland.ourtoolbar.com

Search Tools in SL (1)

• SL Build-in Browser• Infostations

o SLQuery (items)o Google)o Amazono SL Library Catalogueo Wikipedia

• InfoHUD

Search Tools in SL (2)

• PubMed Search• Intute• Healthy Chatbot (Google define)• Search by Chat

o HEALIAo Intute

PubMed Search

Human: What is autism?Healthy: Let me try and Google it.

Autism is a form of pervasive developmental disorder with an unknown origin. It can range from high functioning to severe in nature. Symptoms are a marked lack of awareness of the feelings of others and little or no social interaction or communications with others. ...

SL Health Info outside SL

• Overviewso SL Healthy (slhealthy.wetpaint.com)o Web 2.0 and the 3D Web:

http://healthcybermap.org/sl.htmo HealthInfo Island

http://healthinfoisland.blogspot.com/ Consumer Health Accessibility Virtual Ability

Kirk: Scotty, we need warp power now!Engage!

Dreams Fair, 20 April 2008

Namro Orman a.k.a.Guus van den Brekel, Central Medical

Library, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)

http://healthinfoisland.blogspot.comhttp://www.netvibes.com/cmbhttp://digicmb.blogspot.com