Thank-you for attending my presentation yesterday, I’ve received a lot of useful feedback for my thesis project and I hope that you were able to draw some interesting ideas from it that you can apply in your own areas of…
Month: February 2014
Publishing gibberish …
Publishing gibberish (via Nature.com) Depressing article on how hundreds of papers have been withdrawn from peer-reviewed conference proceedings because they were generated by a software program that strings together random phrases of scientific sounding stuff.
Data Visualisation
The topic of data visualization frequently comes up in our conversations. A really well thought out display of data can make the patterns in very complex data sets immediately apparent. A name that came up at last week’s meeting was…
Virtual Reality Devices
This might be of interest to those of you who are conducting research involving video game immersion. At the moment a device called the Oculus Rift is getting a lot of good press and is shaping up to be the…
Tiny Robots Mimic Termites’ Ability to Build without a Leader – Scientific American
Tiny Robots Mimic Termites’ Ability to Build without a Leader – Scientific American: “” (Via Stephen Downes) These are small autonomous systems with very simple rulesets, and they build structures without communication and without a leader … excellent “teamwork” but…
Trust and Communication in a Digitized World
Here is the link to the research being done by Professer Dr. Bernd Strauss and his team at Muenster University. I for one, am definitely keen to keep up to date with their work, so i thought some of you…
New social networks must not be too social
New social networks must not be too social. Louise – this article has some nice distinctions between public/private, nonymous/anonymous, exclusive/broadcast and different timelines. The article itself doesn’t say anything too special, but the distinctions are nice.
BBC News – Lack of sleep blights pupils’ education
BBC News – Lack of sleep blights pupils' education. This might be of interest to you, Ian!
link to a questionnaire: Examining the role of personality factors in video game use for social networking games.
Hi everyone, Most of the DTT member would have already seen this, but I’m recruiting participants for a study I’m conducting on personality and behaviours of different types of gamers. If you play video games (even just a…
Coursera censorship
Coursera made to enforce US sanctions thereby preventing people in countries such as Sudan, Cuba, and Iran from access to open education. People suffering under oppressive regimes get the additional layer of oppression from sanctions that are designed to “help”…