In virtual worlds, people have digital representations that allow them to recognize each other, interact with other users and navigate in the virtual space. These representations are referred to as “avatars” and they can be two dimensional images, three dimensional figures as shown in Figure 1, icons, textual descriptions or a combination of all of these [1]. Other components which… Read more →
This post will consider how people share content on social networks. This will provide the background necessarily for designing structures to enable content sharing in our social network. A study that was conducted to observe the way in which people share knowledge and participate in one of the largest forums, Yahoo Answers (YA), is highly relevant to our project; what… Read more →
In designing our social network, we will consider how we intend to facilitate communication between individuals. One important consideration is: who will be communicating to who? This post will identify who people will interact with and why. One way we can study this is by considering the models of homophily and heterophily. Rogers and Bhowmik (1958) discuss the concepts of… Read more →
Quick Response codes and Bar codes are machine-readable, two-dimensional black and white images that contain some information that can be collected via scanning using the built-in cameras on smartphones. They can encode more than 4000 alphanumeric characters and more than 7000 numeric characters in one image [8].QR codes were invented in 1994 by a Japanese company called Denso Wave [1]…. Read more →
This post aims to identify the relevant research areas for Leapin.It. This requires further clarification on whether leapin.It is categorised as ubiquitous computing, augmented reality or a combination of both. Mixed reality [1] combines virtual worlds with real worlds by facilitating interaction between physical objects from the real world and 3D graphics from the virtual environment. Figure 1 shows an example… Read more →
Editors note: This post is regarding an earlier idea (GameX) which was later dismissed in favour of LeapIn.it (virtual world). However, this still offers some insight into how rich media is used within social networks and when MMOGs are considered as virtual worlds. This post will outline academic work that has been done in the area of social networks specific… Read more →
