Virtual World Videos

Our Virtual World Experiment Videos If you arrived here after clicking a Tag term, note that some of the Tags refer to content found in the videos.Enjoy watching! Virtual Vocabulary: Technically, these videos are “machinima” – videos captured onscreen from within a virtual world or a game. Our June 2020 research experiment We published our virtual world research experiment machinimas on June 15, 2020. Two versions were produced. Watch them…

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Project Galleries

The Experiment Teams in Action Arrival & Orientation Picnic Ocean Lighthouse Innovation Theater & Steve Jobs Innovation Science Fair Meditation Inspiration Sphere Wisdom Pools & Waterfalls Think Tank Brainstorming Professor Davis’ Office in Frog Yoga Meadow

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Recommended Reading

Understanding Leadership To kick off the decade, here are my top picks for books that have the potential to have a lasting impact on your thoughts and actions. Adam Grant, Ph.D. from University of Michigan in organizational psychology; B.A. from Harvard University Grant is recognized as Wharton’s top-rated professor and one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers and Fortune’s 40 under 40. His “Adam Grant Picks 20 Leadership…

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Ph.D. Research Experiment

Experiment Team in Action Brainstorming NOTES ABOUT OUR EXPERIMENT & COVID-19 The virtual world development for the experiment was originally designed to have five 256×256 meter platforms (approx 16 acres each) with identical content stacked 750 meters apart in an OpenSim region. Thirty student avatars were divided into five color-coded teams to simultaneously participating in the experiment with each team on a separate platform. During the experiment all the students…

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