Suomi Reima, Mäntymäki Matti, Söderlund Sari
Institute of Information Systems Science, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Turku School of Economics, Turku, Finland.
J Med Internet Res. 2014 Oct 13;16(10):e229. doi: 10.2196/jmir.3177.
Social media services can help empower people to take greater responsibility for their health. For example, virtual worlds are media-rich environments that have many technically advantageous characteristics that can be used for Health 2.0 purposes. Second Life has been used to build environments where people can obtain information and interact with other users for peer support and advice from health care professionals.
The intent of the study was to find out whether Second Life is a working and functional platform supporting the empowerment of people in health-related issues.
We conducted a review of the current health-related activity in Second Life, coupled with an extensive series of observations and interactions with the respective resources inside Second Life.
A total of 24 operative health resources were found in Second Life, indicating that health-related activity is rather limited in Second Life, though at first glance it appears to contain very rich health-related content. The other main shortcomings of Second Life relate to a lack of activity, a low number of resource users, problems with Second Life's search features, and the difficulty of finding trustworthy information.
For the average user, Second Life offers very little unique value compared to other online health resources.
社交媒体服务有助于让人们对自身健康承担更多责任。例如，虚拟世界是媒体丰富的环境，具有许多技术上的优势特性，可用于健康2.0目的。“第二人生”已被用于构建环境，人们可以在其中获取信息，并与其他用户互动，以获得来自医疗保健专业人员的同伴支持和建议。
该研究的目的是了解“第二人生”是否是一个在健康相关问题上支持人们增强能力的有效且实用的平台。
我们对“第二人生”中当前与健康相关的活动进行了综述，并对“第二人生”内部的相关资源进行了一系列广泛的观察和互动。
在“第二人生”中总共发现了24个有效的健康资源，这表明与健康相关的活动在“第二人生”中相当有限，尽管乍一看它似乎包含非常丰富的健康相关内容。“第二人生”的其他主要缺点包括缺乏活动、资源用户数量少、“第二人生”搜索功能存在问题以及难以找到可靠信息。
对于普通用户而言，与其他在线健康资源相比，“第二人生”几乎没有提供独特的价值。
