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The Metaverse Journal interviewed DeeAnna and myself about our online therapy and our work inworld.  http://tinyurl.com/cj7t7k

We discuss various issues about using Second Life to host therapy sessions – our optimism about it as well as our concerns around security and encryption, and how we got into this field in the first place. We are so thrilled to have the opportunity to discuss this topic in such a well respected media venue.  The Metaverse Journal has long been one of our favorite picks!

Hope you enjoy it!

Kate

… and the location is not too shabby either!

Lago Maggiore, Verbania-Intra, Italy

Below is a summary.  More information can be found at http://www.e-therapy.info/

Don’t forget to check the Online Therapy Institute’s Events Calendar for this and other related conferences!

The 14th Annual International CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology Conference (CT14) brings together researchers, clinicians, policy makers and funding agencies to share and discuss advancements in the growing disciplines of CyberTherapy & CyberPsychology.

 

The conference will seek input from a wider segment of the scientific community, and is interested in attracting experts in clinical therapy and rehabilitation, cognitive sciences, social sciences, and computer sciences interested in the meeting’s core topics: emerging applications of new media, design of new media and effects of new media.  

 

There is also an interest in continuing to design, evaluate and apply cutting edge technologies such as Ambient Intelligence, Augmented and Mixed Reality, Avatars, Shared Virtual Worlds, Video Game Virtual Reality (VGVR), Web 2.0 and 3.0,  3G and 4G mobile phones.

Well, the story gets more bizarre… the SL/RL divorce couple have refused to speak to the press who were door-stepping them in Cornwall, so a couple of enterprising journalists doorstepped them in Second Life and they opened up immediately!  Disinhibition in action, my friends!

Read the full story at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/15/secondlife-digitalmedia

Kate