Category Archives: Presence

art, religion, dreams and the nature of reality

01:58:10,800 –> 02:00:16,449 the gap between the finite and comprehensible and the infinite and incomprehensible A… it’s like we live in the finite and comprehensible but we’re surrounded by the infinite and incomprehensible and there has to be a border between those of something like a mediating border that’s poetry and art that’s narrative that’sContinue reading “art, religion, dreams and the nature of reality”

Me, We and the Network – shout-out

On of my ‘Network‘ friends, Nancy White, from Full Circle Associates in the States, has been out here in Australia doing some presentations. Here’s a snippet where my ‘We‘ friend Mike Seyfang and I get a shout-out in her Keynote at the Learning Technologies 2009 Conference held this week in Qld. It makes me thinkContinue reading “Me, We and the Network – shout-out”

The Social Internet as Social Assistive Device

The social web offers a means of engagement that trascends the technology and transforms lives. Strangely or not, I tend not to see myself as disabled. Maybe that’s why I tend to focus on sharing more about what I’m doing than who I am or what I think about disability specific things – whatever thoseContinue reading “The Social Internet as Social Assistive Device”

virtual co-presence

Update: Some sentences rearranged to better express what I wanted to convey. Bold added.      Last year a blog post by Mark Pesce titled “Those Wacky Kids” contained this paragraph:   Mizuko Ito, a Japanese researcher, studied teenagers in Japan a few years ago, and found that these kids – from the moment theyContinue reading “virtual co-presence”

Social ‘co-presence’

Why visualize RL data in SL? “…a 3-D virtual environment allows us to more naturally experience and visualize this information in real-time with others and also appreciate their presence around us. Virtual worlds are such an appealing concept to users primarily because of the social ‘co-presence’ of others in these worlds in a very realisticContinue reading “Social ‘co-presence’”