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January 24, 2005

Web based story telling

In this month's interactions, Jim Miller contributes an article entitled Storytelling evolves on the web: case study: EXOCOG and the future of storytelling. It can be found here

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January 04, 2005

Some new examples of persuasive technologies

Persuasive technology is hopping! Check out some recent things I ran across...
Simply insert Doctor Frog into the soil and it will alert you when your plant needs water...This friendly little frog will chirp and croak until your plant gets the water it needs.
By ACT communications
Can video games improve surgeons' performance? We've pointed to prior research about video games and patients before. But here's a new twist:
Surgeons who play video games three hours a week have 37 percent fewer errors and accomplish tasks 27 percent faster, he [James Rosser] says, basing his observation on results of tests using the video game Super Monkey Ball.
Read about it at Marginal Revolutions.
Simulations to train military personnel. Find out why the Army just extended its contract with the a military-systems simulator--for $100 million.
"It's as close to the real thing as we can make it," he said. "In 10 years we've come this far. I can't imagine what it'll be like in another 10."
Wired reports why simulations are so hot in the military.

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