[Research] Self-confrontation to the replay in our experiments

In our experiments, we are using a self-confrontation to the replay of the game. Players are shown the path they took and I ask them few questions ranging from very open at the beginning to more specific at the end. The point is to get information about they inferred the partners strategies. As you...

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[Research] Analysing behavior toward maps

Brown, B. and E. Laurier (2005) Designing electronic maps: an ethnographic approach (.pdf). To appear in: L. Meng, A. Zipf, T. Reichenbacher (Eds.), Map-based mobile services – Theories, Methods and Implementations. Springer Verlag While ethnographic methods are an established tool for requirements...

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[Locative Media] Map Hacks has a blog

For all the folks like me who are waiting the Mapping Hacks book by Jo Walsh and Eric Schuyler, there is a blog about it. "GPS units are nearly everywhere, integrated into cars and even mobile phones. With this collection of mostly free techniques, you can create and share useful digital mapping se...

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[Research] Thoughts about task design

Discussion with thomas about task design in experiment: My question ALWAYS is: Can you abstract from the task? What are are the measures? What are external instruments that - for instance - measure personality, states, an traits, etc. In short: It depends how well the study is conducted. Next to th...

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[Research] Mauro\'s project

There is now a webpage for Mauro's project: Communication has suffered from the clearing of spatial references since the invention of the telephone or the radio. Nevertheless, spatial informations are used all the time by the agents-in-relation to reconstitute the context of the messages exchange. ...

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[Research] A great research group

Just found this: Monkey Methods which appearrs to be of tremendous interest: Monkey Methods Research Group is an experimental playground for cool technology that matters to people. Our latest project is a BitTorrent search engine, which we're working on along with a couple other ideas. And what exa...

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