A Half-Day Workshop on Opportunities, Barriers and Business Models
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Sponsored by Media X at Stanford University
CALL FOR SHORT ONLINE PRESENTATIONS AND SURVEY PARTICIPATION
SCOPE
Virtual environment platforms have gone through a peak of inflated expectations and appear to be in a trough of disillusionment. Some platforms are losing financial support from their sponsors. Yet major businesses and federal
agencies continue to build their use of selected environments. In healthcare, 3D
virtual medical environments are being used to present virtual patients for
education, mass casualty exercises, and physician-patient meetings for PTSD and
other mental health problems.
This half day workshop will bring together selected industry and academia representatives with experience in developing and disseminating virtual medical environments. Existing use cases will be presented and discussion will focus on
opportunities and barriers. The goal will be to generate a Roadmap that presents
some possible paths from the trough of disillusionment to a plateau of
productivity.
LOCATION
The workshop will be held at Wallenberg Hall, Stanford University's state-of-the-art facility for experimentation in innovative learning methods. It is scheduled for Monday, March 8th, 1-5pm, before the Game Developers
Conference, for convenient participation by those planning to travel to San
Francisco. A select number of online seats will be available for remote
participation, and to encourage sharing of ideas and experiences by a worldwide
audience.
REGISTRATION
Registration is free but it is required. Register at web site.
SCHEDULE OF WORKSHOP, following Media X Seminar, 12:30 to 1:30, Lyle Fong, Lithium
Introduction and Review of Existing Systems: 1:30 - 2:00pm
Technology Opportunities and Barriers: 2:00 - 3:00pm
Organizational and Demographic Opportunities and Barriers: 3:15 - 4:15pm
Business Models, Current and Potential: 4:15 - 5:00pm
Wrap Up: 5:00 - 5:15pm
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
We invite abstracts for brief (5 minute) presentations about virtual medical environments that you may have developed, deployed or evaluated. Presentation of specific opportunities and barriers encountered are encouraged. These
presentations may be made in person or remotely.
SUBMISSION
All submissions will be handled electronically. For submission guidelines, please visit here.
IMPORTANT DATES
The focus of this workshop is discussion. However, some dates are important.
Abstract submission deadline: 24 February 2010
Notification of acceptance: 1 March 2010
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Parvati Dev, Innovation in Learning Inc and Media X at Stanford University, USA
Eilif Trondsen, Strategic Business Insights, USA
Dan Gillette, InWorld Solutions, USA
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