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Modalities of space in video games
Axel Stockburger has a very interesting research topic entitled "THE RENDERED ARENA: MODALITIES OF SPACE IN VIDEO AND COMPUTER GAMES". He's working on this at the University of the Arts London, Research Scholarship London Institute with Dr. Angus Carlyle (LCC), Alan Sekers (LCC), Prof. Clive Richar...
Wow and job training
John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas wrote a very insightful article about World of Warcraft in Wired. Their take is that such kind of multiplayer game is a very relevant training for people's future job. what takes place in massively multiplayer online games is what we call accidental learning. It'...
Information versus Knowledge
In the april 2006 issue of Harvard Business Review (Vol. 84, Issue 4), there is a column by Lawrence Prusak that struck me: "The World Is Round". The author is actually taking the counter position of Thomas Friedman who claims that "“Several technological and political forces have converged, and th...
Colors in email
In the last issue of Communication of the ACM, there is a paper about the value of color in email by Moshe Zviran , Dov Te'eni and Yuval Gross. The authors conducted an interesting field experiment about it. DOES COLOR IN EMAIL MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Yes, if used correctly, it can excite and please, pr...
RFID overview: report by the ITU
UBIQUITOUS NETWORK SOCIETIES: THE CASE OF RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION is a "background papers" by by Lara Srivastava, Telecom Policy Analyst, International Telecommunication Union (ITU). It's actually a very accurate and comprehensive overview of the RFID R&D. The part about existing usage is of...
IM evolution
TR has a good piece on how IM is evolving, especially through open-source processes (article by Kate Greene), quoting the interoperability of Jabber (which I use everyday as a gateway for AIM/MSN contacts) or the like of Meebo and Trillian (that "seemingly combine the major IM networks (...) they m...
A MAZEing MOON- Digital experimentation Scenarios for Science Learning
A MAZEing MOON (by Marc Jansen, Maria Oelinger, Kay Hoeksema, Ulrich Hoppe) is a nice example of an educational application that combines handhelds (PDAs) and programmable Lego bricks in a classroom scenario that deals with the problem of letting a robot escape from a maze. It is specific to our ...
Interview of Peter Burgaard from Innovation Lab by Regine
Regine's interview is a very interesting way of stepping away from projects and having a meta-discussion of emerging tech/art trends. Today, the interview of Peder Burgaard is very pertinent for that matter. The guy is studying Information Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, worki...
Fake notepads
3 years ago, while becoming a PhD student, I had this wonderful "wireless notepad": After 3 years, it's now an RFID notepad: Of course, technologically speaking, both are fakes (the former is wireless in the sense that there is absolutely no wires and the latters just had the RFID tag of a cd I b...