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I've posted information about the recent Games for Health conference, inluding a link to my pre-conference presentation slides, on the TechPsych blog.  My talk focused on game accessibility for games and applications in K-12 settings.  (The two pre-conference strands were Virtual Worlds and Game Accessibility.)

Seth Sandler is a university student who is finishing up his bachelor degree in Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts, with an emphasis on Music, at the University of California, San Diego. His research and development work centers around multi-touch, multi-user musical interfaces. Seth Sandler is a member of the NUI Group, also known as the Natural User Interface Group.

Who is in your school's funding network? Think about it and you may just find new funding sources for technology.

The Futuresonic international conference and the Social Technologies Summit invite proposals for talks, presentations, workshops and session themes. Submissions of innovative formats for social interaction are encouraged.

Green Computing

Developing a social networking site is not the same as conventional software development!

Free Report: Video Games and Serious Games: Implications for Education

Mechatronics - The case for blue collare workers with white collar skills

 

Do you trust the information you read on Wikipedia? If anyone can edit content, how do you know who to trust? Would educators accept Wikipedia as a source for research projects if the entry had a high level of trust?

UCSC Associate professor of Comupter Engineering, Luca de Alfaro, developed a "truthiness" rating system that color codes text of Wikipedia articles according to a computed value of trust. The Wiki Lab demo contains a few hundred pages; click here to check it out.