The military is using a mix of live action video and video games to try and reduce soldier suicide, and to help train leaders to make tough decisions under pressure. Two interesting things: they used video rather than animation to increase realism, and in this game there no necessarily "right" answers - every action has consequences.
The army has found that having burn victims play a 3D virtual reality snowball game has significantly eased their pain.
New book (one of the authors is over at Sloan) describing how businesses are beginning to realize and use the power of games for training and motivation.
The kids online are indeed goofing off - but it's that goofing off that's key to their ability to do more "serious" internet usage.
Device that measures nonverbal cues during conversation. Could be very interesting if it was used to quantify some of the nonverbal social cues that those on the autism spectrum miss.
Proposal to make primary source documents used by journalists available online for the public to search. Interesting points in the comments about copyright issues and the difference between primary and mediated information.
Story on the 60 Minutes segment that talks about advances in brain - computer interfaces. Very exciting stuff for those with disabilities!
A proposed London based movie that will incorporate social networking and an alternate reality game. The creative director's plan is to "remove people from their passive positions at their computers and bring them close to the action"... They plan to use "blogs, YouTube, GPS, telephone, secret meetings, IM, auditions... role-play, cinema, and music" to pull viewers into real life interactions.
It's a puzzle game for the Mac, Wii and PC where you build structures that behave differently depending on weather, the properties of the materials used, and the different forces that act on them. These are the dry topics covered in my (hated) high school physics class, but are presented here in an inituitive and scaffolded way... in a bizarre Tim Burton-esque universe.
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The military is using a mix of live action video and video games to try and reduce soldier suicide, and to help train leaders to make tough decisions under pressure. Two interesting things: they used video rather than animation to increase realism, and in this game there no necessarily "right" answers - every action has consequences.
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