http://www.csloh.com/research Designing Online Games Assessment Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:42:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I first read about the (Oct 2008) sales of video games is the only number that's "up" during this economy turmoil... The Nov 2008 sales figure for video games has just been released and it is closed to 3 billion dollars in US alone! Truly amazing! I guess people are trying ... http://www.csloh.com/research/sales-of-video-games/ Came across SimAuthor, a Northern Colorado company that specializes in Flight Simulation. They appeared to garner customers from all over the place: military sectors, flight and aviation industry, and university with an aviation program. (Why is SIUC not listed?) But what's really interesting (to me) is their flight training analysis software... ... http://www.csloh.com/research/simauthor/ Found a Predictive Probabilities Analysis software for download at the Dept of Biostatistics and Applied Mathematics (BAM Software Download Site), maintained by the MD Anderson Cancer Center of the University of Texas. This is primarily a software to support clinical trials in which the endpoint is binary or time-to-event (TTE). http://www.csloh.com/research/bam-software-download-site-predictive-probabilities-software/ After considerable search and thinking session, (and of course, conversation with Mike Young always help), it become increasingly clear to me that survival analysis may be even more appropriate than data mining. In some circle, data mining may be construde as fishing for data, and is always suspect. A more ... http://www.csloh.com/research/survival-analysis/ You have heard and even used SecondLife, but have you heard of SecondHeath – the SecondLife's healthcare virtual world from United Kingdom? Second Health is located in the SciLands, a specialised region of Second Life for Science, Technology and Educational applications. Most of these projects are about professional and patient ... http://www.csloh.com/research/secondhealth/ WebMonkey has a short write-up about Twitter's StreamGraph. This is a new text-mining product by Twitter (after it acquired Summize. It visually maps the latest 200 tweets containing a particular given word/phrase. One can also mine a user's Twitter contribution using the "@user" search function call. [caption id="attachment_202" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="StreamGraph ... http://www.csloh.com/research/twitter-streamgraphs/ The video and computer games are gaining traction in the enterprise and educational arenas as a means to teach new skills to a generation of young adults raised on video games. According to marketing consultancy The Apply Group, between 100 and 135 of the Global Fortune 500 will use gaming ... http://www.csloh.com/research/ibm-and-serious-games/ Yesterday, the Reuter ran an interesting report about LittleBigPlanet (see excerpt below). I am interested less so about the game per se, but more so in the "moddable" aspect of it. It seemed that a "toolkit" will be given so that players can create and share player-created levels after they ... http://www.csloh.com/research/moddable-littlebigpanet/ Ygdrasil is the Tree of Life in Norse mythology, and is also the main "character" in the "Tales of..." franchise (such as the Tales of Symphonia, and Tales of Phantasia). The proper spelling (I believe) is Yggdrasil (i.e. with double-"g"). I know CAVE is considered to be an older-technology; but you ... http://www.csloh.com/research/ygdrasil-and-cave/ Bioware announced their year-long MMOG title today: Star Wars: The Old Republic. Errmmm, can't say it is a surprise, because there have been much speculation about the title (since the huge success of KoTOR, and KoTOR II. So Bioware is merely confirming what we "knew" all along... Good job! Bioware! http://www.csloh.com/research/star-wars-the-old-republic/