The Department of Health and Human Performance has an active presence in the 3-D virtual world of Second Life. The SL HHP sim serves to dessiminate departmental information to visitors and to promote our programs to prospective students. Visitors can take a tour of the department, get flyers from the undergraduate advising center, take part in research studies being carried out in HHP affiliated institutes etc. Visit the HHP sim today and check it out for yourself.

Click here for a video tour of HHP in Second Life with Dr. Charles Layne.

Below are some images from the HHP sim in Second Life.

The landing pad at the HHP sim in Second Life

Click here to visit the HHP sim in Second life - This is a url in Second Life, you need to be logged in to Second Life on your computer.

The University of Houston issued a press release detailing HHP's Second Life initiatives.

Click on the image below to see a video from our Graduate Admissions Counselor, Mr. Todd Boutte, introducing his second life avatar, and describing how you can avail of academic advising in SL.

Are you new to Second Life? visit the Second Life website and sign up for a free avatar.

Second Life (SL) is an Internet-based virtual world. A free downloadable client program called the Second Life Viewer enables its users, called "Residents", to interact with each other through motional avatars, providing an advanced level of a social network service combined with general aspects of a metaverse. Residents can explore, meet other Residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade items (virtual property) and services with one another.