September 2011
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Second Impressions: Sifteo Cubes
Back in April, I participated in the Sifteo Early Access beta program and provided my first impressions of the Sifteo cubes gaming platforms. Five months later, the cubes have launched publicly and I have returned to share my second impressions.
Hardware
Little appears to have changed with the Sifteo cubes hardware since my first experience with them back in April. Quality assurance was a...
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First Look: Sifteo Cubes SDK
In mid September, Sifteo began shipping its first publicly available interactive cubes. I took a look at the newly released and long awaited Sifteo cubes SDK and wanted to share my initial observations. The SDK [was, but is no longer as of this writing] available for download from My Account > Developer Zone on the Sifteo website.
Status
The SDK appears to be in an early stage of development....
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Google Scholar My Citations
Over the summer, Google Scholar released a new feature called My Citations. In My Citations, researchers can set up a profile to collect all of their publications, such as journal articles and conference presentations. The system will link to each item (if available through Google Scholar) and also track its number of citations.
To date, it appears that little has been done with My Citations and...
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EARLI 2011: Personality and Game Design for...
On August 30, 2011, I presented the results of my recent research on video games and personality. This presentation provided an overview of the game design and player type framework that originated from a fall 2010 survey of nearly 300 undergraduate students. The slides from my presentation are available for download as a PDF file.
The discussed framework is composed of six game design features...
