2. Areas of interest Research Entrepreneurship & Teaching Outreach
New and existing Informatics research applied to virtual worlds
Entrepreneurship & Teaching
E-learning and in-world education
Outreach
Public interaction, promoting Informatics
Commercialisation
Working with industrial partners on in-world projects

3. The Informatics Forum

4. Current Work
Second Life used as the current platform for virtual world research
Creation of external tools and assets which can be imported into world
Active AIAI virtual world grid running internally
Two active research projects with industrial partners

5. Virtual World of Whisky Project

6. Virtual World of Whisky
Collaborative systems applied to tutorial environments for whisky tasting
Connecting virtual world to physical environment
Virtual tour of Scotland’s whisky regions
E-learning tour guide
Intelligent agents

7. Virtual Collaboration Centre

8. The Virtual Collaboration Centre
Collaborative research project with SLAM Games
Infrastructure to support collaborative work and play
Environment to assist games development
Games lobby to create gamer community
Applying existing AIAI technology to Second Life

10. The Future More collaboration across Academia, Industry and Community
Building a technology asset bank for virtual environments
‘Virtual Scotland’
Commercial island for working on commercial projects with Entrepreneurs, SMEs and larger industry
Applying research to commercial ventures