Dr. Dee McGonigle, Editor in Chief Dr. Renee Eggers This article
was made possible by an educational grant from Chamberlain
College of Nursing McGonigle, D. & Eggers, R. (October, 2011).
Editorial: Metaversion Intellivars. Online Journal of Nursing
Informatics (OJNI),15 (3). http://ojni.org/issues/?p=889 The
virtual world experience has been evolving. The capabilities of
the avatars are tremendous but what if they could think for
themselves? As we know, avatars are the graphical representation
of the users as they want to be depicted; they are controlled by
the persons or users they represent. Intellivar is a term coined
by Dr. Renee Eggers and Dr. Dee McGonigle. These are avatars
that have been enhanced with artificial intelligence (AI). This
Intellivar does what you tell it to do; you describe what needs
to be done, and it goes off and does it; plus, it can problem
solve on its own. Intellivars are named after the person by
using the person’s initial and the number of the Intellivar;
Intellivar R1 would be