Interdisciplinary Research Seminar (IRS) is series of lectures and online experiences that take full advantage of the emergent real-time virtual environment Second Life. Resident and Visiting interdisciplinary researchers (from both UF and other institutions worldwide) will work with students to design novel research projects and configurations.
Using the interactive virtual world of Second Life as a platform for rapid prototyping and collaborative investigation, the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar is open to students from across the UF campus. The class meets in the Digital Worlds Institute’s Research, Education and Visualization Environment (REVE), a 52 foot wide immersive visualization space in which students can interact in the real and virtual worlds simultaneously.
Student-proposed projects will allow interdisciplinary teams to investigate areas such as social networking, digital prototyping of ideas and invention, and real-time interaction in the 3D graphical Internet. One of the course objectives will be for the student teams to share their creative perspectives and recommendations on how institutions like the University of Florida can make the most appropriate use of Virtual World Environments like Second Life to advance education in the 21st Century.
To register, please visit: http://www.isis.ufl.edu under Fine Arts.
To contact the instructors directly, please email :
Dennis Beck at denbeck@ufl.edu
Arturo Sinclair at arturos@ufl.edu
To visit the student resources page, please follow this link.
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