We're learning more and more every day about orthogonal cancer. We also know that it's linked to genital warts. We do have prophylactic vaccines, Bivalent and Quadrivalent vaccines. The Bivalent vaccine is actually marketed as an orthogenic vaccine, not licensed for men. The Quadrivalent vaccine is marketed as orthogenic and wart prevention that is marketed for men and both women. While we're here today is to talk about second life,and how this internet-based application plays a role in cancer prevention,specifically the sequel of HPV. Well, there's 20 million users of second life as of today,20 million or more. Among those 20 million each one has a unique avatar. Avatars are digital person as in which once they enter the3D world, they can become an animal, the can stay a person,a female can become a male,ethnicity, gender,anything that you can image can be changed within your personal, which works well for me because my population was college students. My hope is that for them to take on a different persona that was actually made them comfortable moving around within this environment to learn about this viral STI. The great thing is that the Internet is everywhere and anywhere.
You can be at a park,you can be at coffee shop,you can be in your own bedroom. When we're talking about this platform,sexually transmitted infections are a private matter. So wherever you want to gain this information,increase your knowledge,it's that person's call. It's real time. Second life is real time. It also allowed me to get real time information and immediate response from my study participants as they move through this first pilot test. So again just a little bit about the sample, the majority of them were females within their second year of college.
Again, this is just a depiction of some of the personal person as that the college students took on while they were in this virtual world. Here you can see,this is when you first come into second life and going to our island,this is the entrance into our platform. Before you could actually enter this, because it was a study,a research study,I did provide a disclosure. As you can read here,we talked about stages of diseases, and we talked about several different viral STIs. Today we're going to focus on HPV. So before the study participant can enter this 3D world,they had to read and accept that Not everyone is familiar with second life,and how to manipulate your avatar. Again, there was a video that was embedded into second life so that the study participants could learn to walk,and learn to fly around in second life. Putting one foot in front of the other is not that easy in second life if you do not have some experience with it. So within that this video was embedded and it could go forward, fast-forward through itor repeat any sections that they felt the need to,to learn how to use the avatar within this world. Once they entered the world,there was one entrance and one exit.
The 3D world was setup like a maze. So as they move through it there were invisible sensors there. I use the sensors to capture my data. I could tell how long they would stay at certain teaching are as or teaching platforms within this. There were educational boards.
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