13095

13095

General Session - Conference Presentation and Interactive Activity Only (40 minutes, no formal paper)

Thomas Conway, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA, tconway@hawaii.edu Megan Conway, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA, mconway@hawaii.edu
 * Using Virtual Environments for Training People with Traumatic Brain Injury **

The virtual environment, Second Life©, is being used to train people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in employment skill building. The EmployAble Project is a two year grant funded by the Kessler Foundation and located at the Center on Disability Studies (CDS) at the College of Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa. A full virtual environment training area has been constructed along with an accompanying web-based learning module. A demonstration of how the training is being applied and used, will be the basis of the presentation.

//Interactivity // The audience will be given the opportunity to access the web-based learning module and view the virtual environment training area. People with access to Second Life will be able to interact with automated "bots" for question and answer sampling of the learning module material.

All Audiences virtualenvironment SecondLife webbasedlearning