Getting Real About Our Virtual Future

Copyright Tim Jones 2010 communicatescience.com

Dr Tim Jones

Presentation to the Jonge Akademie of theDutch Royal Academy of Arts and Science 18th March 2010

Science Communication?

Being together

The Real Thing

Video Conferencing

Picture credits top: WikiCommons, bottom: HP Halo

Virtual World

Joining Up

Building

Virtual Worlds

Meetings & Conferences

Screenshot from a meeting organised by Metanomics to discuss the University of Texas’s project in Second Life

Public Engagement

Exhibitions

Visualisation - Chemistry

DNA at Elon University

Visualisation - Nanotech

Visualisation - Chemistryhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

tOfhuoRbnCg&feature=player_embedded

•SLURL Chemistry Corner on Drexel Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Drexel/241/177/23

Visualisation – Climatology

Visualisation - Astrophysics

3 Body Star Simulation

Photos taken in SL at StellNova. Simulation run by the Meta Institute of Computational Astrophysics (MICA)

Visualisation - Astrophysics

MICA Data Visualization Lab

Photos taken in SL at StellNova. Simulation run by the Meta Institute of Computational Astrophysics (MICA)

Visualisation - Biology

Standing inside a eukaryotic cell (credit Max Chatnoir, Genome Island)

Training - Medical

Visualisation – 3rd party support

Picture credit: Greenphosphor.com

Much still missing from virtual worlds: like ‘expression’

..or Scientists

Scientific Communities The SciLands

Elucian Islands Village (Nature)

Useful links to science in Second Life

SL Science Center Group https://sites.google.com/site/slscgroupsite/places

SciLands http://www.scilands.org/Data Vizualisation Wiki http://sldataviz.pbworks.com/Meta Institute of Computational Astrophysics

http://www.mica-vw.org/wiki/index.php/PublicationsReview of chemistry research, education, visualization in SL

http://www.journal.chemistrycentral.com/content/3/1/14Getting real about our virtual future. Nature Materials, Dec 2009, Jones.

Doi 10.1038/nmat258http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v8/n12/index.html#cy

Virtual Conferences becoming a reality. Nature Chemistry, March 2010, Welch et al doi:10.1038/nchem.556 http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v2/n3/index.html#cy

GoodbyeEmail: timjones@communicatescience.comWeb: http://communicatescience.comSL name: Erasmus MagicTwitter: http://twitter.com/physicus

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