At the lab, we are about the start a new project focused on how people do inference about others'. This process is called Mutual Modeling (I already talked about it in this blog a lot of time anyway).. The project aims at understanding how this work and how we can create 'tools' and methods to gras...
Legal concerns of cheating in Online Multiplayer Games
Nice masters thesis on Gamasutra: A Legal Analysis of Cheating in Online Multiplayer Games by Joel Zetterström. the pdf is here. This Master Thesis deals with the legal issues of cheating in online multiplayer games, particularly in the three major game genres; First Person Shooters, Real Time S...
Nintendo DS brain training
I forgot to talk about this: DS Brain Training for Adults (non-) game impressions. It's actually a review of a Brain Training program for the Nintendo DS posted on the Gaming-Age Forums. Here is the review as done by a a forumer called Jonnyram: It's based on a book with a similar title, writt...
Soccer realtime coverage on your cell phone with playing vatars
Interesting product by betomorrow: now you can use LiveFoot to get a real-ime coverage of a soccer game. LiveFoot is available on Wap, J2ME and Microsoft Smartphone formats: According to the society: LiveFoot is a complete soccer information service. It allows presentation at all times of informati...
Non-accessible mobile phone features, cannot be used in games
A very insightful post by Greg Costikyan about various problems encountered by mobile game designers. Here are some relevant excerpts: In essence, we've been using mobile phones as inferior GameBoys--and that's apparently enough to build a $1b market, and growing. But while there have been a handfu...
Object oriented locative media: asphalt quality for skates
(via) geoskating seems to be a compelling project. As described by Just van den Broecke (his author) "GeoSkating in short is about automatic map generation through GPS/mobile combined with real-time location-tagged media and live tracking.". GeoSkating aims to automate the generation of inter...
New tech/user-centered blog
Laurent finally started his own technology/user-centered blog (Bohellz just gave birth to a ballpark). It's called ballpark. The mooto si simple: This blog is trying to capture the constant integration of technologies in our daily lifes. Stay tuned! It's already filled with good content like his re...
SERVER CRASH SERVER CRASH SERVER CRASH
Pasta and Vinegar is back on board after a server crash and some acces troubles after few days... Sorry :( ...
Reboot 7 coverage
Laurent is giving a pretty good coverage of the reboot conference in Copenhagen! ...
Executives should go to media art festivals
This afternoon talk at reboot 7 must see: Why executives should go to media art festivals by regine New media artists, hackers or interaction designers use (misuse) technology to come up with weird projects. But apart from being quirky, fun and surprising, many artists manage to capture the zeitgei...