Archive for August, 2006



Michael Young (no, not the building)

Published on August 22, 2006

http://liquidnarrative.csc.ncsu.edu/rmy/rmichaelyoung/Home.html ‘Leveraging many models to build interactive learning environments’. Must say I wasn’t too hopeful about this, as the title seemed nonsensical. Seems that leveraging is a word that Americans use far more than Brits, and it seems to mean something like ‘utlilising’ or ’employing’. Can’t find a better definition than that. Anyway, Michael Young, […]


Palindrome Intermedia performance group

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You can see them in action at http://www.palindrome.de/ We had two performances by this group, who use motion tracking software and a host of other gadgetry to foreground the ways in which human conversation involves a host of other things beside words. Eye motions, body position, movement, they’re all involved. So sound and dance and […]


NILE conference

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Narrative and Interactive Learning Environments conference in Edinburgh 8-11 August 2006. Finally, I get round to blogging about my first academic conference as a research student. It must be said that this wasn’t the most obvious choice, even though interactive learning environments are my subject area. Narratives is a bit left field for me, but […]


Technical hitch

Published on August 4, 2006

Sorry folks, The blog and wiki server is down due to a technical problem with the disk drives. The Host Systems Group is working on it, but I don’t know when it will be resolved. Nigel