A MaNet Action Research Project

This project brings the resources and expertise of three partner MaNet Institutions together; Liverpool ICDC, Folly Lancaster and Salford University, to undertake collaborative research into the possible assimilation of, and between, virtual online communities and the built and human environment. This is a mixed realities research project that will address the current virtual community developments and needs such as Second Life. The three partner investigators will establish a networked Second Life environment in the North West to make feasibility test and prototype practice based research experiments between the Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester triangle.

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This is a speculative research project and each member has taken a specific area of interests as an individual starting point that concerns the umbrella research question. It is envisaged that these research strands will meet at a point of convergence towards the middle of the project that will be manifested in a number of possible outcomes and new directions, that will include practical applications as well as future research funding.