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Mi affascina la continua contaminazione tra videogiochi, psicologia, sociologia e via elencando…
What: Edited Collection, “Joystick Soldiers: The military/war video game reader”
Deadline For Submissions: 17 September 2007
Details:The editors seek essays on military/war-themed video games which explore themultifaceted cultural, social, and economic linkages between video games andthe military. [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2007’
Joystick Soldiers: The military/war video game reader
Microsoft in Second Life
Mi sembra interessante, questo racconto della presenza di Microsoft in SL.
I had another visit the Microsoft Imagine Cup site in Second Life. Caroline Phillips and Miel Van Opstal have set up a nice location and a good event. Miel has blogged about the island over at http://micromiel.com/2007/06/25/sneak-preview
The theme for this year’s Imagine Cup [...]
Talk in Torino
Uff.. me li perdo sempre, gli interventi di Nicola!
Currently in Torino, where I gave a talk yesterday organized by Experientia and the Order of Architects of the Province of Turin. My talk “Designing a new ecology of mixed digital and physical environments” was a critical overview of ubiquitous computing (slides as a pdf) based on [...]
H2 ‘07 Event Roundup
Qualche evento, direttamente da Terranova
Edinburgh Interactive 13 - 14 August, Edinburgh, UKI’m running a panel on virtual worlds as societies vs commercial services. There will also be a talks on Virtual Reality TV and a Second Life how-to by TN alumni Dr Jim Purbeck Purbrick [ed.18/7/7/ sorry Jim /me blush].
Digital Interactive Symposium: Edinburgh [...]
Disembodiment in Online Social Interaction
Disembodiment in Online Social Interaction: Impact of Online Chat on Social Support and Psychosocial Well-Being
Cyberpsychology & Behaviour, Jun 2007, Vol. 10, No. 3 : 475 -477
Seok Kang, Ph.D.
This study investigates how disembodiment—that is, transcendence of body constraints in cyberspace—in online chat affects social psychological well-being. The results demonstrate that disembodiment [...]
Field dependency and the sense of object-presence in haptic virtual environments
Field dependency and the sense of object-presence in haptic virtual environments.
Cyberpsychol Behav. 2007 Apr;10(2):243-51
Authors: Hecht D, Reiner M
Virtual environment (VE) users often report having a sense of being present in the virtual place or a sense that the virtual object is present in their environment. This sense of presence [...]
Randomized controlled trial of virtual reality simulator training: transfer to live patients
Randomized controlled trial of virtual reality simulator training: transfer to live patients.
Am J Surg. 2007 Aug;194(2):205-11
Authors: Park J, MacRae H, Musselman LJ, Rossos P, Hamstra SJ, Wolman S, Reznick RK
BACKGROUND: New Residency Review Committee requirements in general surgery require 50 colonoscopies. Simulators have been widely suggested to help prepare [...]
