Giunti Labs collaborates with Cisco and the Serious Games Institute to demonstrate leading-edge learning technology

Giunti Labs, Europe's leading vendor of e-learning and mobile learning content management solutions, is collaborating with Coventry University’s newly formed Serious Games Institute (SGI) and Cisco, to show what can be achieved in combining mobile and virtual worlds e-learning.

The result of this collaboration between the SGI, Giunti Labs and mobile learning specialists Ambient Performance will be on display at the 'Serious Virtual Worlds' (www.seriousvirtualworlds.net) conference being held at the TechnoCentre, Coventry University Technology Park, on 13th and 14th September.

The conference will also feature the launch of Coventry University's Second Life island and highly visual and interactive demonstrations including presentations from the Institute’s industry and academic partners. Among those making presentations at the conference are Cisco, Forterra, Linden Labs, Giunti Labs, Daden ltd, Ambient Performance, PA Consulting, IBM, and Trusim.

“The extraordinary success of virtual worlds such as ‘Second Life’ as virtual social spaces for play is leading us to examine the potential for the serious uses of these worlds,” said the SGI’s director, David Wortley. “The theme for this first Serious Virtual Worlds conference is ‘The Reality of the Virtual World’ and examines how virtual worlds are now being used for serious professional purposes.”

The conference aims to attract professionals with interests in using technology for communication and collaboration; education and training; scenario planning, and for commercial activities, as well as from corporates, the media, multimedia development organisations, public sector organisations, consultancies, technology solution providers, and researchers.

Angus Turpin, manager for Giunti Labs in the UK and Ireland, commented: "Giunti Labs are supplying the SGI with back-end development, consultancy and software based on our flagship e-learning and mobile learning content management platform learn eXact, Europe's leading solution for learning content production and authoring now adding mobile and virtual learning worlds authoring capability."

This will enable:
* The SGI to demonstrate drag and drop positioning of digital learning contents, 3D hotspot positioning, triggering and tracking of learning content by the avatar into those zones.
* The SGI to have the tools and functionality to allow the creation, packaging, management and tracking of SCORM compliant contents which will be contextualised and delivered to Windows Mobile 5 PDAs within the SGI Cisco Wi-Fi network.
* The X, Y, Z co-ordinates of the mobile devices for use by other applications, such as Second Life.

“Giunti Labs are proposing to supply the tools, training and support to enable the creation and repurposing of content using its authoring suite and to test extended third party deployment via this test suite, as well as offering the requisite training and support,” said Turpin.

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About Giunti Labs


Giunti Labs, which has its EMEA headquarters in Italy and offices in Milton Keynes (UK), Frankfurt (Germany) and in Boston (US), provides a wide range of services, in response to any content, learning and knowledge management need.

Further information from:
David Wortley, Serious Games Institute, +44 (0) 7974 984351
Angus Turpin, Giunti Labs, +44 (0) 7733 365063
Minna Leikas, Giunti Labs, +39 3489 399127
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, +44 (0)1727 860405