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Michael G. Cohen posted a blog entry Jan 22, 2009
Improving the Usability of Virtual World Interfaces
Arn Hyndman - Chief Architect - web.alive & Brian Beaton - Usability Architect
INTRODUCTION
Usability testing and evaluation provide insight into how users will likely interact with a particular system. Frequently usability testing and evaluation are used as part of a process whose goal is... more »
Michael G. Cohen posted a blog entry Jan 22, 2009
Communities of Purpose
Too often it seems that our organisations, institutions and nations view learning as an individual process with beginnings and ends, best separated from the rest of our activities and a consequence of teaching - a binary zero or one process where we’re expected to be either learning or not.
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Michael G. Cohen posted a blog entry Jan 14, 2009
A Whirlwind of News
It has been a particularly busy and exciting time for the web.alive team. Just a week into the new year we were heading down to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to unveil our first customer installation of web.alive with our customer Lenovo. After doing some pre-launch interviews and... more »
Michael G. Cohen posted a blog entry Dec 5, 2008
The Immersive Internet - A Look @ Thinkbalm’s Paper - I
Recently Erica and Sam Driver of Thinkbalm released their report entitled “The Immersive Internet” about just that and it is an excellent read and resource. There were so many take aways from the report that I can not keep them contained to just one post, so here is Part I of my deep dive into... more »
Michael G. Cohen posted a blog entry Nov 20, 2008
Virtual World Communication - The Evolution of a R&D Cynic
As a Gen-Xer (admittedly close to the baby boomer edge) my first introduction to web.alive technology was in January of 2008. Initial impression; “this is cool stuff, but can you actually sell it”. As an opportunity presented itself to join the team shortly thereafter I was faced with a... more »
Michael G. Cohen posted a blog entry Oct 29, 2008
web.alive Makes A Splash In Ottawa
The interest level in web.alive is heating up as we watch a world in an extreme economic crunch while teams are more diversified and globally extended. Recently Chief Architect Arn Hyndman sat down with the Ottawa Citizen to discuss the vision behind web.alive a little more thoroughly. You can read... more »