Technlological interventions

Once they interacted with these boards, walked away, within 10 seconds there was a timer that would re-close--that would recover the boards so the next person came through. For example,this is what I call an HPV patch. So within this HPV patch the minute lands there,the sensor senses her and provides me with information such as how long she's--how much time did she spend walking around this patch looking at genital warts on the pup as of a penis or within the anus?

Then as you look up,which you can't really see,but depicted here, again more information. That is  wanted to support what she was seeing,there was more visual information there. As long as was there the timers captured how long she was there. This is another example of an information board. This board actually showed external genital warts from mild to severe on the vulva of a female. Then when whomever was there,once they walked away,this board was automatically become covered again in ten seconds. So it was more than just kind of walking around and then reading information. We attempted to also make it interesting and find ways to make it stimulating. So this is a simulation,first it starts off with just kind of giving them information about the external warts. Then it gives instructions to walk into the simulation. It makes it clear to walking to the simulation of a vagina.

Once they reach the end of this vagina that there's a cervix with different stages,moderate to mild dysplasia. So the avatar again will enter this vaginal canal. Then they would end-up facing the cervix here. So the time and the minute they entered the canal, the timer started and I would then allow them to have the ability to capture how long they stayed and viewed this cervical dysplasia. Here's another example again where they were more interactive. So as they moved around,again this was a maze so they couldn't skip any part of it. They move from one area to the other. At a minimum they had to touch or interact with whatever's therefor seconds or minutes,however the timer was before they could move onto the next section. Here they were instructed to--they would tap here with HPV. Then they would try to match HPV with cervical cancer,or hepatitis B with jaundice. Each time they did this matching correctly, they earn points or their scores increase. This was again a test of their knowledge about viral STIs. Not only did I get the back to the correct number they got correct, but also the time that they spent there,and if they came backt o manipulate that. This was research study. This was the second part to a first--there was a first part where there was are search study. Then the control groups were invited to enter this pilot study. I don't expect that you can read this,but this is just a process flow as to how that research study went.

So there was who was a research assistant,would get the emails of these participants. The participants then would be emailed a URL. This URL was a token,in second life we use the term token. So once they received these tokens they could go in,register within second life and change their email to something other than their university email,and then this email was not tracked with their avatar. The avatar that they created is now their avatar going forth and forever. Then they would get the token, and once they received the token, created the avatar,they were now allowed to enter,and make sure that it was again clear,they would receive an adult consent form informing them that they were now agreeing to become part of a research study. That's kind of how the process went. Again, this was just a process flow to kind of give you an idea how this works.