From the monthly archives: April 2006

Looking for help: Statistical question

By On 26/04/2006 ·

UPDATE: This is no longer the problem – the real problem is outlined here.

No use trying to hide it: I need to look everything up when doing simple statistics.

Perhaps you can help me with a simple question?
Here goes:

Let’s say you are convinced that Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays differ [...]

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Trusting those trusted by someone I trust

By On 26/04/2006 ·

In my master’s thesis on The Architectures of Trust (2MB) I discussed techniques for establishing trust among strangers in online communities such as virtual worlds (around page 61). I said things like:

Another possibility is to give users access to the implicit verdicts of friends. [...]

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TL Taylor: Play Between Worlds

By On 25/04/2006 ·

I’m late to the party, but let it be widely known among all readers of this blog that my supervisor, TL Taylor’s book Play Between Worlds is out in the wild. I’m sure it’s excellent and I’m looking forward to reading it.

From the description:

In Play Between Worlds, T. L. Taylor [...]

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Digra 2007 in Tokyo

By On 23/04/2006 ·

Full papers, no abstracts this time. This is quite an interesting development as it will include fields in which only full papers count as worthy (the case for many computer scientists).

The announcement:

DiGRA 2007 First Circular
We, the DiGRA 2007 Local Organizing Committee, are happy to announce
that the third DiGRA (Digital [...]

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Advice for ITU project writers

By On 20/04/2006 ·

The web is awash with writing guidelines. And as I’ve mentioned before the Danish book “Den gode opgave” cannot be recommended enough. But here are a few tips which I have found relevant for ITU students in particular:

Be more critical. Theories and research cited and used must be evaulated critically. Even the grandest [...]

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