ACRL-VWIG & ALA Virtual Communities in Libraries Program
July 16, 2017 12PM SLT   
 at the CVL Auditorium in Second Life

"Museums of Archaeology"

presented by: Severus Alexander

At the July ACRL-VWIG meeting,  Severus Alexander took us on a tour of an Archaeology Library and several museums on ancient archaeology and history.  The museums included monuments from Ancient Rome and beautiful buildings from ancient history.  Presentations on archaeology are included at the museum along with a Library of Ancient Greek and Roman Literature. The museum includes a gift shop! 

The SLurl is http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Buttercup%20Isle/128/125/3001

All photos courtesy Valibrarian Gregg

ACRL-VWIG & ALA Virtual Communities Libraries Program
August 20, 2017 12PM SLT 

at the CVL Auditorium in Second Life

"Avatars and Artificial Intelligence: Future Digital Citizens"
presented by:
Starlight Darkmatter, Second Life Bar Association and  AI Robot Plutchik.

At this meeting Starlight Darkmatter from the Second Life Bar Association returned to share information about the rights and responsibilities of avatars. Participants were able to interact with AI robot, Plutchik. Plutchik is a work in progress – a bot in Second Life that can be trained to learn from an end user.  A useful response gets a swipe for “good” and a tap for “bad.”  Plutchik is named by Robert Plutchik who identifed eight primary emotions: anger, anticipation, disgust, fear, job, sadness, surprise, and trust.  With further development the Plutchik bot may be able to differentiate between emotions based on voice tone and stress.  To the extent that this happens can we say that bots have developed consciousness?  Can we teach bots to learn and apply ethical concepts? Will we learn to consider bots digital citizens?    Those of us at the meeting had an opportunity to ask Plutchik questions and get some responses.  

Photo by Dahlia Jayaram

Photos courtesy of Valibrarian Gregg

For the full transcript of the presentation click this link:
 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2pfovczopj8ejRUc1diaFJSbG8/view?usp=sharing

ACRL-VWIG & ALA Virtual Communities Libraries Program
September 17, 2017 12PM SLT   
 at the CVL Auditorium in Second Life

"Back to School in Cybalounge: A Follow-up Tour"

presented by:

Edward Tarber

All photos courtesy of Valibrarian Gregg

The ACRL group met in Cybalounge – a 3D virtual world that runs in a browser. No downloads necessary!  The world is easy to use and could be a trouble-free introduction to virtual worlds for new users.  Even though Cybalounge is still under development, Edward Tarber showed us some tools such as an interactive white board in the library.  Click on a book to read the contents of the book.  His students are already using Cybalounge to share classwork.  The number of avatars who can use CybaLounge at any one time is limited to the memory in the browser itself.  Probably 20 -25 avatars can share the space at any one time.  There are plans to allow for avatar customization and more!

 Links to videos of the discussion/presentation can be found in Youtube at the following URLS:
(All videos courtesy of Valibrarian Gregg)



https://youtu.be/UHwLbbxScL0

https://youtu.be/z63H4yrhwNc

https://youtu.be/oUW_HyYZwt4

To enter Cybalounge, simply go to https://cyba.world/location.html?locationid=800000004&dl=true Choose your avatar and name.

Register (for free) at https://cyba.world/ to gain some functionality not open to guests.  Click “register” and select an avatar user name and scroll down to select a password, provide your email address, accept the terms of service and send in your request.  You will receive confirmation via your email address.

Read more:   Tarber, Edward.  (2017, February 4).  cybaLOUNGE: A Virtual World in Your Browser. https://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/2017/01/2017-oshg-tech-cybalounge-virtual-world.html