Siftables, new interface for learning
Posted in gamez, social media on Mrz 9th, 2009
David Merril from MIT Media Lab gave a very nice presentation on Siftables at TED. Watch it here.
Archive for the 'gamez' Category
WoW the Cocaine of the gaming market
Posted in gamez on Mrz 3rd, 2009
A recent study of the The Youth Care Foundation (Stiftelsen Ungdomsvård) has described WoW as the Cocaine of the Gaming market. According to the study WoW addiction plays a part in the majority of game addiction cases.
See the article on swedish news.
gaming and immersion
Posted in gamez, social media on Nov 24th, 2008
watch this movie about the faces of young gamers immersion in games.
Space Invaders made by Neave Games
nice study about how virtual driving influences real word behaviour
Posted in gamez on Sep 8th, 2008
see at http://edugamesblog.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/do-racecar-video-games-affect-rl-driving/
“In this instance, researchers looked at racecar-themed video games
promoting a high level of risk taking, and researched whether playing
them led to increased aggressiveness in real life driving.”
Where does Mobile Gaming develop towards …
Posted in technologiez, gamez, context on Jun 17th, 2008
where is mobile content going?
http://www.slideshare.net/kaeru/mobile-game-directions/
nice one.
Korg DS10 Nintendo DS as mobile Synth
Posted in technologiez, gamez on Mrz 16th, 2008
Interesting idea but who will work with this thing when having a macbook, probably for mobile game sound or interactive sound games and quizzes
Description from Korg website
- World’s first music tool software created for the Nintendo DS
- Two patchable dual-oscillator analog synth simulators:
- Four-part drum machine that uses sounds […]
XEROX PARC play on!
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, […]
James Paul Gee: The top 36 why we learn from games
Posted in gamez, social media on Jan 3rd, 2007
in his book about learning an computer games James Paul Gee names some main points about computer games. (find the book online at Palgrave here)
1. Doing and reflecting
2. Appreciating good design
3. Seeing interrelationships
4. […]
Mobile Gaming: Locatory
Posted in gamez, my_projects on Nov 19th, 2006
I have supervised two Master Thesis about Mobile and Location Aware Gaming. Martina Unger and Lynn Zielke developed Locatory a location aware games based on WLAN Tracking and a Flash Application enabling two teams to play.
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