Posts Relating To: user studies

Do you Collaborate in Second Life? Interviewees Needed

As part of my ongo­ing PhD pro­ject, I’m look­ing to inter­view around a dozen or so people about how they use Second Life to col­lab­or­ate with oth­ers on pro­jects. I’m using a very loose defin­i­tion of col­lab­or­a­tion here, which could include things like gen­eral meet­ings, work­ing on products, organ­ising events, land admin­is­tra­tion, present­a­tions, per­form­ances, even …

January 19, 2010 – 9:49 pm | By Aaron | Posted in research, second life | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

Second Life User Activity in 2009

Given that we’ve just passed into a new year, I thought it might be inter­est­ing to take a look at some Second Life stats. The only stuff I’ve ana­lysed so far is the log-in data. For each day (in the­ory any­way), Linden records how many users logged dur­ing the 7, 14, 30, and 60 days, …

January 3, 2010 – 5:15 am | By Aaron | Posted in second life | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (12)

No Translations for Cisco Telepresence

It’s times like this when I real­ise that maybe I’m actu­ally get­ting some­where with my research. Last year Cisco announced that they were work­ing on an auto­mated trans­la­tion ser­vice for their Tele­p­res­ence video con­fer­en­cing product. The ser­vice could appar­ently tran­scribe a user’s speech, accur­ately trans­late it, and then ‘read’ the trans­la­tion to the user’s remote …

November 21, 2009 – 2:38 pm | By Aaron | Posted in Thoughts | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)