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1. Hackers, computers, and cooperation: A critical history of logo and constructionist learning

   This paper examines the history of the learning theory "constructionism" and its most well-known implementation, Logo, to examine beliefs involving both "C's" in CSCW: computers and cooperation. Tracing the tumultuous history of one of the first examples of computer-supported cooperative learning (CSCL) allows us to question some present-day assumptions regarding the universal appeal of learning to program computers that undergirds popular CSCL initiatives today, including the Scratch programming environment and the "FabLab" makerspace movement. Furthermore, teasing out the individualistic and anti-authority threads in this project and its links to present day narratives of technology development exposes the deeply atomized and even oppositional notions of collaboration in these projects and others under the auspices of CSCW today that draw on early notions of 'hacker culture.' These notions tend to favor a limited view of work, learning, and practice-an invisible constraint that continues to inform how we build and evaluate CSCW technologies.

   Daniel Johannes Flaten Rosnes - 16.06.2021 - 20:18

2. The Character Thinks Ahead: Creative Writing With Deep Learning Nets and Its Stylistic Assessment

   The Character Thinks Ahead: Creative Writing With Deep Learning Nets and Its Stylistic Assessment

   Hazel Smith - 23.08.2021 - 07:35

3. Storytelling for virtual reality: methods and principles for crafting immersive narratives

   Storytelling for Virtual Reality serves as a bridge between students of new media and professionals working between the emerging world of VR technology and the art form of classical storytelling. Rather than examining purely the technical, the text focuses on the narrative and how stories can best be structured, created, and then told in virtual immersive spaces. Author John Bucher examines the timeless principles of storytelling and how they are being applied, transformed, and transcended in Virtual Reality. Interviews, conversations, and case studies with both pioneers and innovators in VR storytelling are featured, including  industry leaders at LucasFilm, 20th Century Fox, Oculus, Insomniac Games, and Google.

   Martijn Holtkamp - 11.03.2024 - 09:24

4. Dawn of the new everything: encounters with reality and virtual reality

   Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox

   The father of virtual reality explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong relationship with technology

   Bridging the gap between tech mania and the experience of being inside the human body, Dawn of the New Everything is a look at what it means to be human at a moment of unprecedented technological possibility.

   Through a fascinating look back over his life in technology, Jaron Lanier, an interdisciplinary scientist and father of the term “virtual reality,” exposes VR’s ability to illuminate and amplify our understanding of our species, and gives readers a new perspective on how the brain and body connect to the world. An inventive blend of autobiography, science writing, philosophy and advice, this book tells the wild story of his personal and professional life as a scientist, from his childhood in the UFO territory of New Mexico, to the loss of his mother, the founding of the first start-up, and finally becoming a world-renowned technological guru.

   Martijn Holtkamp - 11.03.2024 - 10:08

5. Artificial Intelligence and Games

   This is the first textbook dedicated to explaining how artificial intelligence (AI) techniques can be used in and for games. After introductory chapters that explain the background and key techniques in AI and games, the authors explain how to use AI to play games, to generate content for games and to model players. The book will be suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in games, artificial intelligence, design, human-computer interaction, and computational intelligence, and also for self-study by industrial game developers and practitioners. The authors have developed a website (http://www.gameaibook.org) that complements the material covered in the book with up-to-date exercises, lecture slides and reading

   Martijn Holtkamp - 15.03.2024 - 13:55

6. The Future of XR - Keynote address

   The Future of XR - Keynote address

   Caitlin Fisher - 28.07.2023 - 23:02

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