Personal Health Care Assistant/Companion in Virtual World
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We propose to create a virtual personal health care assistant in the virtual world Second Life that accompanies the user, via an avatar, through interactions with healthcare databases answering the user's avatar's questions. This paper explores various ways to promote healthy in a virtual world environment by integrating several existing technologies.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009