If you are a user of one the mobile AR applications, such as Layar, Junaio, Wikitude, Google Goggles (or any of the many others), and would like to help the (academic) research of augmented reality, boy do Markus Salo and Thomas Olsson have an offer fo…
VANISHED – Middle-schoolers think like real scientists as they race to solve an environmental mystery in the alternate reality game Vanished.
The first in a series of articles.
Scholar Class 2011
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Middle-schoolers think like real scientists as they race to solve an environmental mystery in the alternate reality game “VANISHED”.
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Over the past four years there was a 43 percent increase in prescriptions for antidepressants. Some news outlets attribute this rise to the recession. People more depressed equals more drugs. Ben Goldacre of Bad Science explains why said outlets need to be more careful with their analyses. From what I can tell, all the reports [...]
If you are involved in crowdsourcing, collections or digital projects you are invited to attend a one day conference at Oxford University on 26th May which will celebrate the joys and challenges of community collections.
It will be hosted by the RunCoco project and sponsored by JISC. The conference will be of interest to learning technologists, [...]
The MIT SENSEable City Lab presents five different perspectives of the ebb and flow in Singapore at the Singapore Art Museum. LIVE Singapore! provides people with access to a range of useful real-time information about their city by developing an open platform for the collection, elaboration and distribution of real-time data that reflect urban activity. [...]
I’m not ashamed to admit that part of the fun of playing with data sets is simply the pleasure in looking at rich examples where the ebb and flow of the real world is captured in the data without necessarily…
I’ve made a moderate update to d8taplex, adding time series data sets from Canada, France and Japan in addition to those from the UK. The site now includes the ability to limit the search for time series data to data…
I got myself caught this evening in a thing that happens to me here every so often: I’ll spot an intriguing post title in my “Five Years Ago” block and click and read that post, and get all nostalgic about five years ago, and sometime later realize that I’ve just been paging forward through old [...]
Next to their established offices in Boston and Milan, MIT Senseable Lab is now also active in Singapore, where they just launched an impressive exhibition [senseable.mit.edu] with five different graphical perspectives into Singapore’s social, economi…
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The Teaching with Digital Media initiative is an introduction to the fields of youth media and media literacy, designed to familiarize teachers with an array of free and easy-to-use tools and resources.
Cat Spraying putting a small amount of urine on vertical surfaces such as furniture, doors and walls.
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Wow, what a busy week. I’ve listed below only a few of this week’s AR related news stories, just to protect you from an information overload. I hope to blog about the other stories in the coming days.This computer vision and augmented reality mind map …
Brabantsche YeestenbyJan Van Boendale (c.1280-1351)”His first work, the Brabantsche yeesten (Brabantine Deeds), is a chronicle in coupled rhyme, dealing with the history of the Brabantine ducal house in the period from ca. 600 to ca. 1350. This chronic…
