Apart from some sobering thoughts about Digital Immortality I didn't think I'd see much linking Virtual Humans to COVID-19 but this is an interesting post around the concept of Personal Digital Twins (CDT). As I understand it the idea is that if your digital twin is put into the agent based model of the disease then a) you get a more personal sense as to whether the virus might get you, and so modify your behaviour accordingly (although the reverse may be a danger), b) the model is more accurate if your PDT is an accurate model of you rather than a generic agent and c) by combining the model action/results and your real world action/results the model can be improved.
Read more at: https://cmte.ieee.org/futuredirections/2020/04/07/personal-digital-twins-role-in-epidemics-control-xi/
This website and blog support the Virtual Humans book by David Burden and Maggi Savin-Baden published by Taylor & Francis in February 2019. Here you can find links to images, videos, papers, articles and application resources related to the topics covered by the book, and a blog maintained by the authors to track the development of this fascinating and vitally important topic. NOTE: Ongoing blog posts related to the book are now being posted at www.themetaverseseries.info.
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