Reflection on Meaningful Play 2012
Meaningful Play, a conference for “serious” games that takes place every two years, was hosted at Michigan State University last week. Unfortunately, I was not able to present anything this […]
Did the Mayans predict the end of print?
Perhaps the end of the Mayan calendar was not predicting the end of the world but the end of print media (as we know it). Newsweek is getting rid of […]
Google’s new cloud service is not a cloud
I was very pleased when Google changed its Google Docs service to a more generic cloud computing service and named it Google Drive instead of Google Cloud. I never really […]
Gangnam Style (Media) effects
Bandura tried to show how influential media could be by showing how children exposed to a video of a person punching a Bobo doll imitated and even creatively elaborated on aggressive […]
Analyzing political speeches with Twitter
The Atlantic published a graph showing the volume of tweets related to the Democratic convention (w/ speech by Michelle Obama on second night) and how that volume compares with tweets […]
Roy Lichtenstein retrospective: copycat or innovator?
I am not a huge fan of the pop artist, but I immensely enjoyed the Roy Lichtenstein (1923-97) retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago. I was unfamiliar with his […]
Detecting personality from how people customize their virtual city
After two years of rejections from very traditional psychology journals, I’m very pleased to report that my paper on spatial customization and personality has been finally accepted for publication at […]
Housing for tornadoes
Whenever I read or hear about tornadoes damaging houses, it is interesting (although a shame) that despite all our modern technology, we are so vulnerable in front of destructive forces […]
