ME/CFS in Second Life, research project by Murdoch University

Kirsty Best, senior lecturer at Murdoch University in the School of Media, Communication and Culture is undertaking research concerning people with ME/CFS and the internet-based computer program Second Life.

Titled 'Isolation, illness and the Internet: Exploring the possibility of a second life for sufferers of ME', the research centres around interviews with participants from Canada and Australia about how and whether computers and the internet help to ease some of the isolation people with ME/CFS experience due to their illness, getting them set up in Second Life and then seeing if Second Life is a useful way of supplementing some of their other Internet-based activities or whether it is too hard.

Visit the ME/CFS Centre created as part of the grant, here.

The research is funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) under a three-year grant.

A summary of the project was listed in Co-Cure on the 6th of April. Details here.

Original source: Metaverse Health, March 30 2010.