Conference Agenda

Virtual Workshops

We have two virtual workshops you can attend. Workshops will run on May 11. Both workshops will be held in Second Life at the Slurls provided.

 

Manage Your Tools!

Ms. Carmela Dell’Aria, Universita degli Studi di Palermo

This workshop will be offered once at 1:00 PM.

SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ideal%20City/255/138/28

 

Major Incident Virtual Patient

Mr. David Taylor, Imperial College London

This workshop will be offered at three different times (All times are EMT):

2:30 PM

3:00 PM

3:30 PM

SLurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Second%20Health%20Training/16/162/28

 

 

Start

End

Workshop Schedule - May 11, 2011

7:00

8:00

Welcome Reception and Early Registration

(Marshall Hall Atrium)

Tracks

Design

Develop

Government

Technology

Training

8:00

9:15

Gaming the Dataverse

 

Ms. Ann Cudworth, Alchemy Sims

 (Room 103)

Building Networked 3D Virtual Worlds using X3D Graphics

 

Nicholas Polys Ph.D., Virginia Tech

 

Don Brutzman Ph.D., Naval Postgraduate School

 

David Colleen, Planet 9 Studios

 

Jeff Weekley, Naval Postgraduate School

 

(Room 197)

DoD Virtual World Framework

 

Mr. Carl Rosengrant, Training Readiness and Strategy, OSD

(Room 110)

Lessons Learned in NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Second Life Project: Real Facilities from Virtual Worlds

 

Mr. Charles White, NASA, JPL

(Room 178)

Lessons Learned from World of Warcraft

 

Mr. Eric Hackathorn & Dr. Daniel Laughlin

(Hopper Auditorium)

Community Building in Virtual Worlds: Mutual Learning for New Technology

 

Janalee Redmond, The Epoch Institute

 

and

 

Joan Combs-Durso, Sullivan University

(Room 105)

9:15

9:30

Break

9:30

11:00

Gaming the Dataverse
(Continued)

 

Ms. Ann Cudworth, Alchemy Sims 

 (Room 103)

Building Networked 3D Virtual Worlds using X3D Graphics

(Continued)

 

Nicholas Polys Ph.D., Virginia Tech

 

Don Brutzman Ph.D., Naval Postgraduate School

 

David Colleen, Planet 9 Studios

 

Jeff Weekley, Naval Postgraduate School

 

(Room 197)

Virtual Worlds and Persons with Disabilities

 

Mr. Alexander Koudry, GSA

(Room 178)

Fun with OpenSim and FreeSwitch

 

Mr. Robert Daniel, BlueGrid Technologies

 (Hopper Huditorium)

Using Virtual Worlds in Training: Communications and Counseling

 

Ms. Patricia Abshier, Cicatelli Associates, Inc.

(Room 110)

11:00

11:30

Break

11:30

1:00

Lunch

1:00

2:15

VW Games for Decision Making

Mr. Randy Hinrichs, 2b3d

 

and

 

Dr. Kevin Holloway,

National Center for Telehealth and Technology

(Room 103)

Education –Manage Your Tools!

 

Ms. Carmela Dell’Aria, Universita degli Studi di Palermo (Virtual Only)

Addressing Scalability by Combining a MMO with Constructive Simulations: Introduction to Edge

 

Mr. Douglas Maxwell

and

Ms. Tami Griffith, US Army Research Lab STTC

 (Hopper Auditorium)

Do We Really Need Standards for Virtual Worlds?

 

Ms. Sandy Kearney, e426.org

 

and

 

Jay Lorio, IEEE

(Room 178)

Virtual Science Centers: The SENDS Center for Cyberspace Science

 

Dr. Carl Hunt, Directed Technologies, Inc.

(Room 110)

2:15

2:30

Break

2:30

4:00

VW Games for Decision Making
(Continued)

 

Mr. Randy Hinrichs, 2b3d

 

and

 

Dr. Kevin Holloway,

National Center for Telehealth and Technology

(Room 103)

Major Incident Virtual Patient

 

Mr. David Taylor, Imperial College London (Virtual Only)

 

This workshop will be offered at three different times:

2:30pm

3:00pm

3:30pm

Rapid Design and Development of Virtual Worlds Training Courses

 

Mr. Andrew Boyarsky, City University of New York &

Dr. Anders Gronstedt, Gronstedt Group

(Room 110)

Do We Really Need Standards for Virtual Worlds? (Continued)

 

Ms. Sandy Kearny, The Innovation Corps of America

(Room 178)

The Amputee Virtual Environment Support Space (AVESS)

 

Mr. Douglas Thompson, Remedy Communications  

(Hopper Auditorium)

 

Second Life Assessment Solutions: Expand your Mind, Evaluate, and Change your Classroom

 

Elizabeth Hodge, Ph.D.

&

Sharon Collins, East Carolina University

(Room 197)

 

All times in Eastern Standard Time(EST)

 

 

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