Thanks to all the participants in the Group of Work Metaverses and 3D Environments (IV Congress of Cybersociety)

Our Group of Work "Metaverses and 3D Environments" tell to you that appart from the important contribution of Pierre Lévy, we have received 16 very interesting works.

Sometimes we find on newspapers articles and texts that criticize second life and it seems that the person who have wrote this kind of articles did not spent time trying to look for interesting uses of this Virtual World.

The 17 works subimitted in our GT will help people and participants in the IV Congress of Cibersociety to know about possible applications of the use of Virtual Worlds (specially Second Life) for teaching, researching, make business or even for achieving artistic purposes. We want to congratulate all the participants.


Pierre Lévy (Canada) "Toward a Civilization of Collective Intelligence"

Pedro Andrade (Portugal) "Sociology of Metaverse"

Zaixega Casás Aguín (Galicia) "Footprint of Galicia in Second Life"

Loris Talpo" (Italy) "Education in Second Life - Experiences of a Mentor and an NCI Helper"

Max Ugaz (Peru) "Espacio Virtual de la Universidad de San Martín de Porres del Perú (USMP)" Características y Aplicaciones. junio 2008 - setiembre 2009".

Daniël Vandersmissen (Belgium)"Dan Yapungku in, SL Daniël Vandersmissen in RL"

Gaia Moretti (Italy) "Mundos digitais virtuais em 3D e aprendizagem organizacional: uma relação possível e produtiva".

Giovanni Tweak (Canada) "Story of Drive Through ELF"

Akemi Mochizuki (Japan) (3 works )
1,"Designing tools in Second Life"
2, "Description of two Educational Tools for Second Life: Memorize & Categorize"
3, "Notes about Linden Scripting Language (LSL) and its possible applications"

Bex Ferriday(United Kingdom of G. Britain and N. Ireland) "Transferable Skills and Teacher Education in Second Life"

Micheline Batista (Brazil) "Second Life: cibercorpos e experimentações identitárias em um mundo virtual"

Leila El Kamel and Benny Rigaux-Bricmont (Canada)
"Online qualitative research and metaverses"


Guillaume Hervet, Ellafi khaoula , Benny Rigaux-Bricmont(Canada)
"Conducting Research in Virtual Worlds"

Mobius Ryba(United Kingdom of G. Britain and N. Ireland) Arena Rezzer and Moderation Tool"

Manuel García Vuelta (Spain) "INTERWRITE-DDB (La mejor Pizarra Interactiva de los Entornos 3D"