Posts Relating To: cognitive ergonomics

Avatars United — A Sticking-Plaster Solution for Networking in Second Life

So I guess almost every­one who’s going to read this post is aware of Linden Labs pur­chase of Avatars United and the assim­il­a­tion of it’s cre­at­ive minds at Enemy Unknown. Spec­u­la­tion is rife as to what motiv­ated this pur­chase, the grand avatar purge that counts Ener Hax amongst it cas­u­al­ties? Prob­lems with scal­ing? Chances are …

February 2, 2010 – 2:29 am | By Aaron | Posted in Thoughts, second life | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Copybotting as ‘intentional human error’

I’ve been read­ing quite a lot of blog posts on the topic of copy­bot­ting recently. For those who don’t know, copy­bot­ting is the blanket term used to cover Second Life pir­acy. Its name comes from the pro­cess where an auto­mated avatar (bot) sys­tem­at­ic­ally inspects and then rep­lic­ates an in-world item — although it now tends …

December 15, 2009 – 2:00 pm | By Aaron | Posted in Thoughts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)