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Wheeling in Second Life
Duration:
4 minutes and 27 seconds
Country:
Australia
Language:
English
Genre:
Documentary
Producer:
Roger Hudson
Director:
Roger Hudson
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2,037
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Posted by:
webusability on Dec 19, 2007
Video of woman with cerebral palsy talking about Second Life and the club Wheelies.
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- [Wheeling in Second Life]
- I work during the day, so when I come home and I've only got like a couple of hours.
- So by the time I do my own emails and correspondence that come in during the day
- I might have about forty-five minutes or an hour to do whatever, so
- Roger: And what's your current really big thing on the Web that you're into?
- Judith: Second Life. I've got a wheelchair in Second Life also.
- Roger: Do you always...
- Judith: You can choose whether you want to be in a wheelchair or not.
- You can have crutches, you can have whatever disability you have in real life in Second Life.
- Roger: Do you always stay in your wheelchair in second life?
- Judith: No, no, no.
- Roger: Are there many other people in wheelchairs in Second Life?
- Judith: Simon Walsh.
- Roger: From the UK?
- Judith: Yes. And he always stays in his wheelchair.
- But, just like in real life,
- I find the attitude of people in Second Life to people with a disability.
- I have run an experiment myself.
- I've gone to this particular website
- as an able bodied person got out on the dance floor
- and danced for half an hour with different avatars or different people
- whatever you like to call them.
- Then I've gone away, put myself in my wheelchair,
- gone back, the same people were there and they didn't want to know me.
- Roger: Are there special places in Second Life where people in wheelchairs hang out.
- Judith: Yes, "Wheelies".
- Roger: What's Wheelies?
- Judith: That's a nightclub specially built by people, or by a man who has cerebral palsy, in the UK.
- Roger: Can you take us to it?
- Judith: yes.
- Wheelies was started by Simon
- Judith: Unfortunately like real life you've got to go around things
- because you can't go through them.
- You can fly over them.
- Oh, there's Simon!
- Roger: He's in there is he?
- Judith: Yes.
- He was there before, in there [...]
- [How many people visit "Wheelies"?]
- [disabled or norms?" Few 100 I guess.]
- Judith: There you are... 100 people a week.
- Judith: When I first started he got a couple of hundred.
- [Going up to the dance floor]
- Judith: That's Simon up there? The avatar... that's him in real life.
- Roger: He was on big brother
- Judith: Yes, in the UK.
- And that's the DJ, that girl in the green, and he pays her to be the DJ there.
- Roger: Oh, right
- Judith: And she talks to you over the thing.
- "Hello Wheelies", see she's talking to you.
- Roger: do you think that this will be a really useful tool for people who are unable to get around?
- Who have problems of mobility in real life?
- Judith: Yes, because you can have friends without having to go out and physically find them.
- Transcription Alan Chuter, Technosite (achuter@technosite.es)


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