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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Learning Biology and Habitats with Augmented Reality
This is the second in a three-part series of design proposals for augmented reality learning applications. These are from a paper I wrote in my computers and cognition...
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Learning Photography with Augmented Reality
This is the first in a three-part series of design proposals for augmented reality learning applications. These are from a paper I wrote in my computers and cognition...
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Networking is Key
Time and time again I find that networking truly is the key to a successful career. It's amazing what kind of opportunities arise because of who you know.During...
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Game Day at Carleton University
Game Day is an an annual event at Carleton University. It's a day full of lectures on various game industry topics, a LAN party, and one of many Global Game Jam...
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IBM Extreme Blue Case Study Competition
Why is it that out of 20 awesome students in last summer's edition of IBM's Extreme Blue program in Ottawa, not one was female?That was the question the current...
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Language, Learning and Literacy in a Digital Age
Kids fail at school because they are learning in a language that's foreign to them.That's the first thing I wrote down at a talk given at Carleton last week by ...
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Bringing Computer Science to Let's Talk Science
One of my major goals when I joined Let's Talk Science was to bring more computer science activities to the program. They already had a lot of awesome stuff for...
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Games and the Three Levels of Design
Continuing to read Donald Norman's Emotional Design, I am finding the three levels of design most of the book is based on to be very useful, especially when thinking...
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Fun Through Fantasy and Narrative
An interesting topic came up in a recent game design class. We were talking about various types of fun after trying to define fun itself (which, by the way, is...
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Sorting Bottles and Boxes with Processing
(Click the link at the bottom to see the game.)One of my classes this term (a game design grad course) requires the use of Processing: Processing is an open source...
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Attractive Things Work Better
I've always liked Don Norman. Well, I should say I've always liked his work, because I've never met him (though he seems nice enough). Learning material from ...
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Being Digital
How appropriate of me to read a book on technology from 15 years ago after the decade that I think was the most exciting comes to a close. The funny thing is that...
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The Dressing of Games
I've been reading A Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster lately. It's a pretty different take on game design, unlike any other book on the topic I've seen...
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Mini-Course: Round Three
I'm super excited to be doing round three of my week-long mini-course for grade eight girls 'Computer Science and Games: Just for Girls!' this May. I've been thinking...
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End of Term Bliss
I finally finished my last projects for school this weekend. In fact, I was half an hour late to our CU-WISE potluck dinner organized for execs and officers because...
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Strategies for Lighting the Fire for Learning
On December 4, I attended a public presentation that was put on for the Seminar in University Teaching, a graduate course at Carleton. Popular psychology professor...
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Creating Your Academic Portfolio
I recently attended a workshop put on by our school's career services department about making an academic portfolio. Now that I'm a PhD student, I really wantcurrent...
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Line Game at Design Tomorrow's World
This post was written originally for the Carleton University Women in Science and Engineering blog.I just got back from Design Tomorrow's World. The event is very...
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Cognition All Around Me
Today was the last day of classes for Computers and Cognition, a course that's inspired a couple of posts here, and that I signed up for, for credit, even though...
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