Mii school: New 3D technologies applied in education to detect drug abuses and bullying in adolescents

Abstract

Mii School is a 3D school simulator developed with Blender and used by psychology researchers for the detection of drugs abuses, bullying and mental disorders in adolescents. The school simulator created is an interactive video game where the players, in this case the students, have to choose, along 17 scenes simulated, the options that better define their personalities. In this paper we present a technical characteristics description and the first results obtained in a real school. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.