While looking for existing virus simulations, I came across the MIT Participatory Simulations Site. I'll let the abstract from a student final project speak for itself:
“New technology developed at the MIT Media Laboratory enables students to become active participants in life-sized, computational simulations of dynamic systems. These participatory simulations provide an individual, "first-person" perspective on the system, just as acting in Hamlet provides such a perspective on Shakespeare. Using our Thinking Tags, small, name-tag sized computers that communicate with each other via infrared, we add a thin layer of computation to participant’s social interactions, transforming a group of people into participants in a dynamic simulation. Participants in these simulations get highly engaged in the activities and collaboratively study the underlying systemic model.”
The main MIT Participatory Simulations Site virus page
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