{"id":34,"date":"2006-09-18T01:52:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T05:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2006\/09\/18\/disabilities-in-muves\/"},"modified":"2006-09-18T01:52:34","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T05:52:34","slug":"disabilities-in-muves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2006\/09\/18\/disabilities-in-muves\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabilities in MUVEs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday in Second Life, on of our students (or unofficial participants, it&#8217;s a bit confusing at the moment) developed a technical glitch in which everything she typed was repeated twice or sometimes four times. (Like Jimmy Two-Times from <em>Goodfellas<\/em>). After double-talking a couple of times, she began apologizing for her &#8220;disability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I began thinking that a &#8220;disability&#8221; in the MUVE environment would be directly connected to the platform. A computer-based interface might level\/eliminate certain disabilities (deafness, for example, in text-based environments) while highlighting\/amplifying others (cognititive disabilities, for example, or those that prevent use of the interface at all, such as blindness in the case of a 3D world).<\/p>\n<p>I also began thinking how an educational experience might be crafted around imposing a &#8220;disability&#8221; on students and asking them to experience the world through that lens, particularly if they are able-bodied in real life. Might make for some interesting insights and revelations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday in Second Life, on of our students (or unofficial participants, it&#8217;s a bit confusing at the moment) developed a technical glitch in which everything she typed was repeated twice or sometimes four times. (Like Jimmy Two-Times from Goodfellas). After double-talking a couple of times, she began apologizing for her &#8220;disability.&#8221; I began thinking that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[870,698],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyber-pedagogy","category-second-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}