Archive for April, 2007
Virtual – Real transaction.
That seems a little bit hard to believe and it could be fake but it is still possible and put further the virtual and reality dependence in social gaming.
Why Do I blog This? Few months ago, I was aiming at doing a survey on people who meets on Mmorpgs and dates in real life. The [...]
Box.net file-sharing folder widget
I tested I new service providing “embeddable” widgets for sharing files. Hereafter is an example:
Mind-Reading machines
In my previous post I reported work about the “Mind-Reading Machines”. Here is an intersting video giving a newbie dedicated overview of the project
Computer Assisted Theory of Mind
Rana el Kaliouby is a postdoctoral associate of the MIT Media Lab that works on a affective computing multidisciplinary project on “mind reading machines technologies to enhance and augment the social-emotional intelligence of machines, people diagnosed with autism” or not. I first read about her here. It was definitely time to blog about the very [...]
The Magic Box: Totem for creativity
These days, there is a background reflection running in my head, gathering Ideas and food for thoughts about the creation process and creativity. I noticed observing my colleagues that all of them have sorts of ritualistic behaviors in there working flow process. Nicolas needs to move and work in different places and environments with his [...]
The Difference between Psychology and Neuroscience
Recently a debate with Frédéric Kaplan reminds me an old debate with some student colleagues during my degree in cognitive psychology at the university of Geneva. As many other campuses, the fresh and fashionable trend was the cognitive neuroscience approach. A recent post in Cognitive daily asks the same question and gives answers close to [...]
Nolife TV
Free is aiming to lounch in his freebox tv, a program dedicated to a cybercommunity called “nolifes” (usually online or offline video game addicts and/or Manga animation fans spending a lot of time on it). Here I report pieces of an interview of the co-founder, Sébastien Ruchet. I appologize; it is in french. I don’t [...]
Mirror Neurons
A very informative and well done video on the Mirror Neurons:
Why Do I Blog This? Because it is closely related to my research topic. Mirror Neurons are the low-level basic neurological hypothesis of what is called “theory of mind” and “mutual modeling” in my case.
Mobile Augmented Reality
TechnologyReview recently lounched its top 10 of the today’s most significant emerging technologies and the “Mobile Augmented Reality of Nokia is part of it.
My mobile freak friends (Nova and Girardin) knows probably more than me about it. To summarize, engineers at the Nokia revealed a protoÂtype of the Mobile Augmented Reality system. They added a [...]
The Male-Warrior Hypothesis
in his blog, Deric Bownds points to an interesting paper bridging a link between the gender biased intragroup cooperativeness depending on the intergroup threat sensitivity of males (by opposition to females). Here is the abstract of the paper in question:
Evolutionary scientists argue that human cooperation is the product of a long history of competition among [...]
