Posted in research, cool stuff, context, audiocaster on Jan 31st, 2009
The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons
licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is
what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. You can find collections, geotagged sounds and remix the sounds. Great stuf if you want to build geotagging environments.
Posted in events, research, my_projects on Jun 17th, 2008
wordle is a nice service to create word clouds check out the one from my delicious account below
Posted in research, technologiez on Mai 19th, 2008
I just came across a call for participation for:
Program 1st International Conference on Human Robot Personal Relationship
interesting program. I have not been aware of how far the discussion in this area already go but check out agenda talks like:
Me Robot, You Jane (Prof.dr. Sally Wyatt, Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
Improving Human-to-Human Relationships through the Use […]
Posted in research, web2.0, social media on Dez 27th, 2007
This is an interesting presentation about some background statistics over current “exponential developments” that might get you started on thinking about the future need for education. (youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U)
Posted in events, research, publications on Dez 6th, 2007
What happens if you add a school year to education?
According to a European study 5% increase in short term productivity and another 5% in long term productivity will occur. More education leads to more health, happiness, …
A complete study about this find at “Human capital in a global and knowledge-based economy” .
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Stephen P. Robbins Ph.D. has written a new book on “The Truth About Managing People” just had a glance on his chapter about motivation of workers. He highlights three questions about the point often heard by managers: “people are just not motivated to work”.
“do employees believe that if they give a maximum effort, […]
Hi all I am contributing in 2007 to the following conferences and workshops, with some of them you can also meet me.
Workshop on Contextualized Attention Metadata:
personalized access to digital resources, CAMA 2007 June 23, 2007, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada
Fachübergreifende Konferenz “Mensch Computer Interaktion”,
Weimar, Germany.
Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning,
17-20 September 2007, Crete, Greece
7th IEEE […]
I am in the Program Committee for the CAMA workshop on Contextualized Attention Metadata: personalized access to digital resources see webpage at:
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/cama2007/
it will be at ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Vancouver.
Organized by Erik Duval, Jehad Najjar, and Martin Wolpers
Posted in research, technologiez, my_projects, context on Mrz 19th, 2007
The new MACE project website is online now. We used Joomla for the page and I like the design realized by the MACE partners. Check out www.mace-project.eu if you are interested in learning objects, federated object repositories, architecture and design, and new things you can do with metadata .
MACE Project Website.
Posted in research, gamez, social media on Feb 3rd, 2007
I came across a very interesting site looking at the social dimensions of online games. You can find a lot of statistics about average game time for leveling and leveling curves for keeping players motivated. Other statistics look at the stability and cohesion of groups on game servers.
BTW an interesting article about fun, learning, […]
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