Showing posts with label THERAPY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label THERAPY. Show all posts

Saturday, October 22, 2022

2922 Fearless Nation in the old metaverse. PTSD support, one of the many support services offered in the old metaverse. Second Life.


Fearless Nation in the old metaverse.  
PTSD support, 
one of the many support services offered in the old metaverse.  



World-wide, 24/7, always there.  Disabilities?  The metaverse?  Both!


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  • Care Made in Second Life - Fearless Nation
  • Fearless Nation PTSD Support is an RL 501c3 Nonprofit Organization for people with PTSD, their families, partners, children, and communities. 
  • They provide education, support, and advocacy. 
  • Since 2009 they've had a virtual online community that spans distance, with a small carbon footprint bringing people together for peer support, education, and advocacy for people with PTSD. 
  • Video Production by Draxtor Despres
  • Second Life
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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

2022 #VWEDU Disabilities count a lot less in the metaverse. We go anywhere with no transportation. A wheelchair fits nicely behind a keyboard.


Disabilities count a lot less in the metaverse. 
We go anywhere with no transportation.
A wheelchair fits nicely behind a keyboard.
The metaverse is easily a place for work-from-home.  For people with limited mobility, the metaverse offers a potential workplace that solves the transportation problem.

Virtual Ability Tour, G Heron et al. MACHINIMA

  • Gentle Heron 0:39
  • Suellen Heartsong 12:42
  • James Heartsong 15:08
  • iSkye Silverweb 25:35 Lorivonne Lustre (LV)
  • Lorivonne Lustre (LV) 29:45
  • Thanks! 33:11
  • Close (Riverdance) 33:56
  • Presented 17-Nov-2021
  • Sojourner Auditorium, Virtual Ability Island
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Saturday, March 26, 2022

2022 Therapy in the metaverse. Helping old people remember. And lot more


Therapy in the metaverse. 
Helping old people remember.  
And  lot more
A care home in Oxford is using virtual reality technology to help elderly people with dementia to retrieve some personal memories.

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Friday, April 2, 2021

2021 See; Welcome to New Eden. A place of beauty in a virtual world. Just the kind of place I think would make a good senior center.


Welcome to New Eden. 
A place of beauty in a virtual world.
Just the kind of place I think would make a good senior center.
Description of a place in a virtual world and consideration of how its amenities would benefit a senior center.
Destinations
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  • Go there: HG address:
  • grid.kitely.com:8002:New Eden  
  • Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map, click Find, TP
  • Web Page
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Monday, January 18, 2021

2021 VW: Covid feel Good. VR App to treat psychological stress. (Some may find it helpful)


Covid feel Good.  
VR App to treat psychological stress.  
(Some may find it helpful)

How to make a smart phone into a low cost stereo viewing device is described.  The app shows a peaceful scene with relaxing voice over. 

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Sunday, March 15, 2020

2020 #VWEDU: Symbolic Modeling (SymMod): a discovery and learning approach. A training course in a virtual world


Symbolic Modeling (SymMod): 
a discovery and learning approach.  
A training course in a virtual world 
Symbolic Modeling (SymMod) is a discovery and learning approach developed by therapist Marly Milena in Second Life (Niela Miller in her physical life), and is grounded in Gestalt Psychology. This video explains Symbolic Modeling, explains how the approach is valuable and customizable for any field, and provides information about a SymMod Facilitator training course offered by Marly in Second Life.

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Sunday, June 24, 2018

2018 EDU: PEOPLE: Disabled? Not in virtual worlds. Lonely? Not in virtual wolds. Your avatar has superpowers!


Disabled?  Not in virtual worlds.  
Lonely?  Not in virtual wolds.  
Your avatar has superpowers!

“Our Digital Selves: My Avatar is me!” tells the story of 13 global citizens and their avatars as they transcend their various disabilities through artistic expression and making a home for themselves in the VR Metaverse.

The film follows researchers Tom Boellstorff and Donna Davis as they facilitate deep connections between real human beings in virtuality by giving away digital land to build anything the participants of this project can dream up.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

2018 WW: A2Z informal meeting on the web. A social feature of web-worlds

A2Z informal meeting on the web.  
A social feature of web-worlds
Web-worlds are the new social media.   So social you can talk to friends there. Here I present videos of a conversation I had with friends in a developing web-world,  We are talking about recent features being developed: An art gallery imported from a grid in OpenSim and a counselling office with personal private rooms for each client.

Web conversation at the WW entry room

  • An informal conversation on the web.  That's one of the things web-worlds can offer.
  • We did not have to register, though some of us did. 
  • I am registered and have my picture showing on my avatar.
  •  A2Z Walkin website .
  • I am talking with Evie, the developer, and Bill Blight, a grid owner in OpenSim.
  • We discuss the new features recently added to this web-place. 
  • Meeting rooms are also offered with support from Apache for meetings
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Sunday, February 18, 2018

2018 THERAPY: Stuart Duncan: How I use Minecraft to help kids with autism

Stuart Duncan: How I use Minecraft 
to help kids with autism
 AutCraft creates a safe online environment for play and self-expression for kids who sometimes behave a bit differently than their peers.
The internet can be an ugly place, but you won't find bullies or trolls on Stuart Duncan's Minecraft server, AutCraft. Designed for children with autism and their families, AutCraft creates a safe online environment for play and self-expression for kids who sometimes behave a bit differently than their peers (and who might be singled out elsewhere). Learn more about one of the best places on the internet with this heart-warming talk.

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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

2018 THERAPY: Therapeutic applications in virtual reality


Therapeutic applications
in virtual worlds
Updated 6/22/2018
Social VR (virtual worlds) is increasingly being used to create therapeutic or helpful environments in connection with psychological problems.   Here I have collected some publicly available examples to suggest the possibilities.



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Monday, December 25, 2017

2017 THERAPY: Avatar therapy 'reduces power of schizophrenia voices'

Avatar therapy 'reduces power of schizophrenia voices'
We have known all along that the only way to get rid of your fears is to confront them.  But how can schizophrenics confront those voices in the head?  This therapy gets those virtual voices into virtual avatars, where the patient can confront them.  It seems to work.

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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

2017 Virtual Reality Occupational Therapy: The Introduction

Virtual Reality Occupational Therapy: The Introduction
Video introduction to Virtual Reality Occupational Therapy.


Virtual Reality Occupational Therapy is HERE!! The purpose of the virtual reality OT sessions is to allow access to occupational therapy anytime and anywhere. Whether you are in a region that occupational therapists are sparse, or your're a therapist and you want your clients to be removed from the humdrum of the clinic, school, or their home, VR-OT is for everyone.
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Sunday, December 17, 2017

2017 3D LES: Aphasia therapy in OpenSim, Eva Park

3D LES:  Aphasia therapy in OpenSim, Eva Park
Aphasia is a loss of the ability to speak and/or understand language.  EVA Park is a pioneering virtual world for people with aphasia, a language impairment that affects one third of people who survive a stroke.

Eva Park is a multi-user online virtual world that gives people with aphasia unique opportunities to practise their speech and establish social connections. It was created at City, University of London, via a process of co-design where people with aphasia collaborated with researchers in human-computer interaction and speech and language therapy.
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Monday, October 9, 2017

2017 THERAPY: EDU: Virtual Reality Grocery Shopping: Part 2

Virtual Reality Grocery Shopping: Part 2
An illustration of how virtual reality can be used to provide practice intended to be therapeutic.

Virtual Reality Occupational Therapy would like to present, back by request, another grocery shopping session. Designed to address visual perceptual skills of visual closure, figure ground, and scanning, this session allows clients to practice and improve these skills by locating items on the shelves of a grocery store. We have most recently been using VR-OT with TBI, PTSD, Anxiety disorders, ADHD, and Autism, with outstanding outcomes and noting excellent carry-over of skills!! If there are any VR-OT sessions that you would like to see, please feel free to let us know.
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