I just found the article “Cyberspace, cybertexts, cybermaps” by Marie-Laure Ryan. Interesting stuff!

My friends at the Digibarn Computer Museum are doing The Digibarn’s Maze War 30 year retrospective “The First First Person Shooter” on November 7:
Maze first brought us the concept of online players as eyeball “avatars” chasing each other around in a maze). From its humble 1974 origins on the Imlacs PDS-1 at the NASA [...]

As some of you might have noticed, I am rather interested in presentation software (see here for instance). There is a lot of philosphy, pedagogy and other issues that surface in the ongoing discussion of PowerPoint as a tool: blank slate or superimposed structure?
Today I found a BBC 15-minute feature on PowerPoint: “Microsoft PowerPoint [...]

This is a pre-version of the poster for Mia L

Today HUMlab was a very lively place. Lots of small children from the region visited the university and we had 6 or 7 groups come to us. They got to film themselves against a blue screen and were then inserted into real films (Nemo among others). Also there was a dance mat station where they [...]

In 2003 we arranged a workshop on dynamic maps in HUMlab that turned out really great. We had a range of really good and interesting people present and a mix of talks, art installations, and technology sessions. Everything integrated of course. Among the particpants were Martin Dodge, Judith Donath and George Gumerman (former professor of [...]

I have missed blogging while being in transit and involved in some time-consuming projects. I have learnt a lot (not least in preparing for commenting on a 100 page thesis on broadband domestication in three residential communities in Northern Sweden). Yesterday we had Jonas Linderoth visit from Gothenburg University and he talked about his Gibsonian/Goffmanian [...]

I have just taken a new look at Davis Noble’s book Digital Diploma Mills again. Noble starts out from correspondence education and in the later chapters of the books, he looks at online learning. I found this book useful – not least the historical comparison. But I also think that it has to be read [...]

After the predidential debate I saw a kind of visualization that I have not seen before. After the debate had finished CNN showed footage with “sympthy curves” as a dynamic overlay picture. This made it possible to follow the debate second by second and see how the male and female members of the focus group [...]

On computer game play, children, reality, fantasy, affordances, making meaning and other things. Based on extensive empirical data.

I have discussed Linderoth’s work earlier (here and here).