Who by: Soulla Stylianou, Client Director, Daden Ltd Date: 13th April 2010 Where: Be2Camp Fringe Event at BIFM annual conference, London Description: How virtual worlds like Second Life could be used within the FM industry for training

1. Daden Limited
Is there a Second Life
for FM?
Soulla Stylianou
Client Director
Daden Limited
© 2010 www.daden.co.uk

2. Who are we?
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 Virtualworlds & character solutions provider
 In industry since late 1990s
 In Second Life since 2004
 World-class expertise and innovation in
Integration, AI and virtual worlds
 Member, Serious Games Institute
 Based in Birmingham UK, and Second Life

3. ©2010 www.daden.co.uk

4. What We Do….
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Training & Instruction Collaboration Design & Build

5. Design & Build
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 Annotated Spaces
 Assesssocial aspects of new
developments
 Consider HVAC spec
 Stakeholder involvement
 Build
completed before RL
equivalent

6. Collaboration
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 Datascape
 “Data Visualisation Hub”
 Multiple
sources of information
– one space
 Open documents, video etc
within virtual world
 2nd
prize “Collaboration”
category at US Federal Virtual
World Challenge 2010

7. Training & Instruction
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 PIVOTE – open source
 St George's Hospital Training
Paramedics
 Customer Service/Speaking & Listening
skills
 Hurricane Shelter Training/Disaster
Management - NY
 Downloaded >250 times
 THE Award 2009
 1st prize “Skills Building” category at US
Federal Virtual World Challenge 2010

8. Digital Birmingham - bscape
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Client: Birmingham City Council
Aim: Showcase virtual world technology
World: Second Life
Duration: 2 months
Solution: Briefing hub using Google Maps,
Geocode RSS and KML datafeeds,
images & videos
Benefits: Show how virtual worlds can support
virtual working, visualise data and
GIS, support user generated content
and prime for further projects
Follow Up: Full island build, extension of 3D
model to include new Library,
Council chamber for edemocracy
© 2009 www.daden.co.uk

9. Birmingham City Univ. – Education
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Client: Birmingham City University
Aim: Create eLearning environment in SL
World: Second Life
Duration: 4-6 months
Solution: Deployment of Sloodle
Modelling of Millennium Point building
Benefits: Improved Learning
Follow Up: Multiple internal/external projects

10. PIVOTE
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An exercise authoring system for virtual worlds which:
 Lets you write an exercise once, but play it in multiple virtual
worlds, and on the web
 Clearly separates content, structure and appearance
 Allows you to create different user experiences for the same
content based on levels of user expertise, and/or the session
objective (e.g. novice, advanced, revision, assessment)
 Captures student performance data and allows export to a VLE
 Lets you exchange objects with other users and embed them in
your own exercises
 Is based on an open XML standard (MVP) and is open-source

11. PIVOTE Scenario
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12. Web: www.daden.co.uk
Email: soulla.stylianou@daden.co.uk
YouTube: www.youtube.com/dadenmedia
Twitter: Soulla Stylianou
Second Life: ImmortalitySou Ballinger
Second Life sim: Daden Prime
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