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Up until now, most of my blog posts have been fairly opinionated errr... reflections on various things, events, etc. Don't get me wrong, I love writing these things - and I have every intention on carrying on with them - but for a blog that was originally meant to be about research it's kind of been a little low on the factual stuff.

With my next post I hope to change all that. My plan is to run a fairly regular, or at least weekly, post series where I'll talk about proper academic research and topics, giving overviews, spliced with some opinions, on published research that might be appealing to people with a general interest in the psychology of virtual worlds (and to some extent telepresence). Topics and papers that I'll be choosing to write about will vary, although I'll try to go for things that are more likely to be new to most readers, rather than telling them things they already know. As part of that, I'd be interested to know what questions you have or what topics specifically interest you - my specialities are in psychology and cognitive ergonomics, so hopefully I'll be able to answer a good range of questions ranging from social interaction to user-centred design. If there's anything you'd specifically like to see covered, please post it in the comments section and I'll see what I can do.

For my first post I'm going to write about a framework in which virtual reality is usually interpreted. It'll be barebones stuff, but should provide some context as to how virtual reality, from a non-technical point of view, is approached. I'm not going to say much about it now, but hopefully it should make for an interesting read. With a bit of luck I'll have written sometime before the end of the weekend.

(Hopefully) Related posts:

1. Virtual World Design Guidelines Courtesy of Microsoft Between 1995 and 2001, Microsoft developed and oper­ated it’s own social vir­tual world. Named V-Chat, the ser­vice allowed users to cre­ate their own text-based,...
2. Welcome to my research blog Hello and wel­come to my blog, post num­ber one — oblig­at­ory object­ives post com­plete with a vague over­view of who I am and what...