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MingleBird is a mobile socializing application that makes meeting people a snap. Played at social or business gatherings where “ice breaking” can be a chore, MingleBird makes mingling and networking fun. Using the iPhone app, players seek out assigned “connections” at events to win points and prizes, all while developing valuable social and business relationships.
You can find further information at http://www.minglebird.com
Marc Hassenzahl is Professor at the Folkwang University in Essen and research manager at MediaCity, Åbo Akademi University, Vaasa, Finland. He explains how experiences are created and shaped through technology (aka User Experience) and how to deliberately design those. Read Marc’s chapter with commentaries by Don Norman, Eric Reiss, Mark Blythe, and Whitney Hess.
http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/user_experience_and_experience_design.html
On this page you’ll find interesting interviews with Marc Hassenzahl talking about his work and his approaches. Perhaps at least for the games this approach gives a new interesting point of view, while designing game concepts.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has relased a game for next Sunday’s 83rd Academi Awards ceremony.
Basically, the application let users make their Oscar predictions and compete with their friends, then stay up-to-date on Academy goings-on all year long. During Oscar season, access complete Nominee lists, insider information on each film, viewable trailers and more. Make a prediction in each category, compare with your group of friends and share your picks through Facebook, Twitter, text and email. Real-time scoring lets you see how you scored against your group and the rest of the community. YEAR-ROUND: Find out about all the other official Academy events, and get the latest Academy news and updates throughout the year. Download the one and only official Oscar app from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
You can dowload the application from the App Store are: http://itunes.apple.com/es/app/the-oscars/id354102052?mt=8#
Definitely, a nice example of using directed gamification to get users installing a much wider purpose application. What do you think?
We are happy to announce that INSEMTIVES is new sponsor of the upcoming .Astronomy 3 conference in Oxford, UK, April 4-6, 2011.
Networking and sharing ideas has never been so easy. Astronomers are using the internet to distribute, access and analyse data. The tools that make this possible are being created and developed all over the world – at home, in businesses and at universities – often in people’s spare time. The .Astronomy conference aims to bring together this international community of researchers, developers, educators and communicators to showcase and build upon these many web-based projects, from outreach and education to research tools and data analysis.
.Astronomy 3 will be held at New College, Oxford from the 4th to the 6th of April 2011. There will be 50 spaces at this three-day conference, where participants will learn, create and be inspired. Networking and sharing ideas has never been so easy. The Internet has created an environment that allows information and ideas to merge and evolve, allowing the rapid creation of new tools and resources…
Find out more about .Astronomy 3: http://dotastronomy.com/
Speaking Image is a web application developed jointly by 2mdc and General Foundation CSIC. Its main objective is to provide an online tool for interactive annotation of images.
The idea is to allows users to upload high-resolution images, work on them adding information over specific areas of the image and interact with other users through standard social network tools.
If you want more information, do not hesitate to visit their website at http://www.speakingimage.org or having a look at the tour.
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