I completed the survey. I didn't receive a survey completed redirrect but when I try to do my eval again it goes to a blank page. But that is probably because I did it.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Class 12 Course Eval
I completed the survey. I didn't receive a survey completed redirrect but when I try to do my eval again it goes to a blank page. But that is probably because I did it.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Class 12
Part 1. She analyzes what different factors of the individuals that cause them to become addicted and have addiction to games.
A bunch of small cases studies of people addicted to video games from Apopka High school including a professor.
Starring a lady who owns a gaming cafe that restricts gameplay to 24hr in a stent.
More cases of game addiction. This one has 2 people who fell in love in the game and didnt meet until well after this love had established.This article is about how Professor Walsh first became interested in Immersive Education. Then the article says the areas where Professor Walsh wanted to concentrate on, one being 3D/VR. Back in the early 90's when 3D on a personal level was unheard of, Professor Walsh was fascinated any wanted to pursue this technology. This gave him the ambition to create open standards and eventually the Web3D standards. He also contributed in the development of the MPEG format which is widely popular.
The next part of the article is an interview where Professor Walsh is asked several questions regarding what VR worlds are and what types of worlds they are, reasons for choosing them, challenges and drawbacks to using virtual reality for education. Professor Walsh talks of trying to find the next technology to use for Immersive Education. Just like technology improves greatly in just a few years so do the platforms that Immersive Education uses. Second Life was considered but lacks some utility and functionality that is needed for an instructor.
This article really helps answer where Immersive Education can potentially go and reasons/implementations for it. Also it was cool to find out that the professor helped develop MPEG format.
WoW: My Addiction
Professor Aaron E. Walsh notes: This was written by "John" in July 2007. John was a student of mine. He was in my Discovering Computer Graphics course at Boston College (http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc), and was much more advanced than the other students. When I asked why he was taking this class, when he clearly had enough experience to take one of my more advanced classes, he explained that he had no choice: he had failed out of school, and was starting over. After we talked more as the semester went he explained why. I asked him to write it down for future students. Here’s what he wrote in one sitting about why he was “starting over”:
World of Warcraft (WoW): My Addiction
I've played various MMORPG games over the years, some being fairly addicting, some not even catching my interest, but one stands out above the rest as the most addicting and life consuming thing I've ever encountered in my life. You might have guessed it already, but that game is World of Warcraft, a game that I would recommend everyone stays away from.
Like most addictions, it didn't start out that way. It was just harmless fun; I'd log on for a few hours every day and level my character, talk to some friends I had on the game... it was nothing that took me away from other things. I was in high school at the time, and was still managing to get on with my work at first, even though that was a struggle in itself sometimes, and I kept in touch with my friends and saw them regularly.
At first I was surprised at how little interest I had in playing the game for long stints, as I had heard some things about how enticing and gripping the game was, and the first few months were fine, until I started to get near the level cap. Approaching the maximum level I began to play the game more and more, as reaching the end game content opened up a whole new world. I became involved with a hardcore raiding guild, competing to be the best guild on the server, and it all went from there.
The first thing that changed was that I now had raiding times to meet every weekday evening in addition to the gold farming I had to do during the day in order to be able to afford all the potions
and items I needed to raid, and somehow, my guilds progression through the bosses in the game became the most important thing to me in my life, and I slowly started to phase out my friends. At this point I was still going to school, so between the school day and the game, I had no time for anything else.
Contrary to what people might think, I didn't lack a social life at all, even without seeing or talking to any of my friends from school. In fact, it was quite the opposite, I had a whole new group
of friends... in World of Warcraft. Now I didn't even have to leave my room to hang out with my friends, I could just pop on my headset and hang out with them in the game.
Now, to rewind a bit, I remember when I was creeping up on the level cap, and my parents were beginning to get concerned with how much I was playing the game, I kept telling them that it would be all over soon. Heck, even I thought it would! Little did I know, the game would be even more demanding of me after that.
I wanted to be the best, I wanted to have the best items, I wanted to have the most gold. I wanted to be popular with the people on my server, I wanted to be known. I wanted to top the damage meters on every single fight. I don't know why, I can't explain it, but the game was just the most important thing to me, I wanted to do nothing else. I wanted to play every single day all day and night and would do whatever I could to keep myself awake and at the computer. Whatever it took, energy drinks, amphetamines, I would keep myself awake for hours on end, not getting any exercise and rarely leaving the house.
The more and more I played, the more and more things I felt compelled to spend my time doing inside the game. It seems that they create the game in such a way that even though there technically is a way to have the ultimate everything and clear all the bosses etc.. etc...... By the time you get close they add more content to the game to keep you going, its a never ending story.
I would pick up my prescription for amphetamines just so I could stay up all night farming items to sell for gold, I wanted to have the best enchantments and to get all the rare random world drops... and so much more.
I completely stopped going to school, completely stopped seeing my friends.... and the most worrying fact was that I didn't really care. It just stole my heart and mind from everything else, gave me a false sense that everything was okay and that I wasn't ruining the rest of my life. I don't know what would have happened if I hadn't stopped, I had stopped going to school and cut off social contact with everyone but the people I knew in the game, it was like a world within itself. I didn't even want to stop until I had a taste of life without it, a taste that was forced, however.
If I hadn't been forced to live somewhere without a computer I don't know what would have happened.
Motion Cap & Lip Sync
Me watching the movie about motion capture
The wiki link to lip syncing. It just gives a general outline of what it is.
Here is the wiki for Motion Capture. Gives the general background to motion capture
Class 11 HW
My certificate for completing the training.
I added a handlebar moustache and added a tattoo that says "Thug-Life" to the skin.
Here I went through the various panels and modified a character to try to look like me but it didn't work so well.
Class 11
Doing my own thing in WoW
Just showing an achievement
Taking care of business in the world
Running back to turn in a quest
Turning the quest in
Yay level 7
Leaving to go travel to another town
Finally made it! Took about 10 minutes of walking though.
An interesting article article. Basically people become virtual actors
A hypothesis that when a robot acts more human the human will be more emotional responsive to the robot. 
Another video
Another video
Another video
These first 4 videos focus on the Uncanny Valley. It goes through many different robots and animation that try to replicate and sometimes dont try to replicate actual humans. But they talk about the emotional aspect of the robots.
Real time synthetic humans!
Roll Call 2
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