Vitae: Digital Hiring Halls for On Demand Workers
From The Theme POTENTIAL, PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY WHAT IF What if we could improve the hiring experience for on demand workers and employers? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to develop and test an online tool (Vitae) designed to improve the presentation and evaluation of worker qualifications. Researchers hypothesized that aggregating work […]
Real Time Knowledge Capture and Feedback in Design Workspaces
From The Theme SMART OFFICE WORKFLOWS WHAT IF What if we could capture knowledge and interactions in real time, in order to better understand team interaction and workflow? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to develop a knowledge capture and reuse system that enables real-time analysis and feedback for design workspaces. Our […]
Eye Tracking as an Augmented Input
From The Theme MOBILE AND ALTERNATIVE FORM FACTOR DEVICES WHAT IF What if eye tracker and eye-gaze information could be used to help your devices know where you are looking and what your attention is on? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to study the viability of using eye-gaze information to augment […]
The Willful Pupil Project
From The Theme SOCIAL AND COMPUTING SCIENCES WHAT IF What if we could develop and use “teachable” computer agents to test the wisdom that people learn by teaching? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to develop and implement a “Teachable Agent” that was “willful” – exhibiting intentions in dialog that would sometimes […]
Pragmatics of Computer Assisted Communication and Communication about Virtual Worlds
From The Theme ADVANCED HUMAN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES WHAT IF? What if we could investigate the interaction of discourse and presence in virtual worlds? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to conduct a preliminary exploration of the notion of “spatial presence” in virtual environments – the sense of “being there” that users of […]
Virtual Sensor Networks
From The Theme ADVANCED HUMAN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES WHAT IF? What if we could use sensors to seamlessly exchange information between virtual worlds and the physical world? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to develop a sensor network for a virtual world, and to develop protocols and tools that combine Virtual and real-world […]
Virtual Jurisdictions
From The Theme ADVANCED HUMAN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES WHAT IF? What if we could learn how the use of virtual world technology influences individual communication and interaction, and explore the development of legal regimes to govern virtual communities? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to explore how the physics and community of virtual […]
SPEEDLimits
From The Theme ADVANCED HUMAN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES WHAT IF? What if we could develop new technological solutions for virtual 3D worlds and apply these for high-level cultural programming and education? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to experiment with a new “mixed” reality model of curatorial practice, meshing physical and virtual worlds […]
Exploring the Virtual in the Physical and the Physical in the Virtual
From The Theme ADVANCED HUMAN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES WHAT IF? What if we could examine how individuals experience and behave in physical places that are augmented with layers of digital information, and in virtual places that are augmented with layers of physical information? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to explore the role […]