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THE IMPORTANCE OF DESIGNING AND USING DEVICES DESIGNED FOR IDENTIFYING AND FOR ACHIEVING SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES IN VIRTUAL WORLDS.

Word Puzzle Balls, Dracy Words Game, Dracy Board, Brainflowing.

Gloria Gómez-Diago (SL name: gloriagdiagoGalicia)-Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sciences of Communication (II) at the Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid).

Akemi Mochizuki (SL name: Draceina Pinion)-Graduated at Math at Kyoto University and Manager of a Cram School.

Virtual Worlds are suitable contexts for undertaking on them activities oriented to accomplish purposes linked to the activities we develop at physical world, such as enhancing the learning process of a subject, performing collective work _ by the development of virtual meetings and/or brainstorming, or even, conducting social research, through the performance of “focus group” (Rigaux Bricmont y Kamel, 2009).

We aim to illustrate the importance of designing and using devices for facilitating both, the identification and the fulfillment of specific objectives in Virtual Worlds. Tools motivate different uses and applications of these environments, allowing us not just to localize different ways for using them, but also to identify possible needs and/or ideas for designing new devices whereby will be possible to get other purposes in these environments. During this workshop we will show five tools intended to achieve different objectives in Second Life: Word Puzzle Balls, Dracy Words Game, Dracy Board and Brainflowing.