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Coming of Age in Second Life

 

I just found this interview with Tom Boellstorff, the author of ‘Coming of Age in Second Life’. One part of the interview stood out to me as I am struggling to come to terms with the virtual ethnography project. I am finding the ethnography a very partial piece of research as I am not including any of the participants’ [...]

Robots that Share Emotion

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Ted Talks – David Hanson on ‘Robots that Share Emotion’

Danson is working on robots that can build relationships with people by showing empathy via recognising and mimicking facial expressions. He calls this area of study  ‘character robotics’. It seems that he has already developed a ’spokesbot’ for the animatronic/robotic community.

Week 6 Summary

 

This week has been taken up with working on the virtual ethnography. It has kept me away from the lifestream, to a certain extent.

Reading Hine (2000), along with Jen’s feedback, has helped me understand a little more clearly why I am writing these weekly reflections.  I was not sure why I had to write the [...]