{"id":176,"date":"2011-09-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.eda.kent.ac.uk\/news-ext\/2011\/09\/14\/school-of-engineering-and-digital-arts-welcomes-members-of-the-womens-institute-to-virtual-worlds\/"},"modified":"2011-09-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T00:00:00","slug":"school-of-engineering-and-digital-arts-welcomes-members-of-the-womens-institute-to-virtual-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2011\/09\/14\/school-of-engineering-and-digital-arts-welcomes-members-of-the-womens-institute-to-virtual-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Engineering and Digital Arts welcomes members of the Women\u2019s Institute to Virtual Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Academic staff from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts were delighted to welcome members of the East Kent Federation of the Women\u2019s Institute to two School events involving online participation in virtual worlds.  Eighteen WI members participated in the events which took place at the Bulb, Canterbury Innovation Centre on 5th and 13th September.  Following an overview of the School\u2019s Digital Media research and teaching activities, all participants went \u2018in-world\u2019 into Second Life, an online virtual environment with over one million users.  Whilst \u2018in-world\u2019, participants created their own avatars, danced on the dance floor to the sound of Glen Miller music and visited the School\u2019s virtual gallery of research projects. One of the featured projects was SEEDS: An Approach to Virtual Participatory Design, which explored the motivations and obstacles faced by older people when engaging with technology.   The project was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).<br \/>\nBoth events were funded by the Time Out grant from the EPSRC which aims to promote dissemination of findings from research projects.  There will be two similar events involving members of the Women\u2019s Institute taking place on 13th and 20th September at the Bulb, Canterbury Innovation Centre.<br \/>\nFor further enquiries contact Ania Bobrowicz on an@kent.ac.uk.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic staff from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts were delighted to welcome members of the East Kent Federation of the Women\u2019s Institute to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2011\/09\/14\/school-of-engineering-and-digital-arts-welcomes-members-of-the-womens-institute-to-virtual-worlds\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}