Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
I love Wikipedia, I use it on a regular basis, but I never thought about contributing anything. Why not? I’ve never searched for something that wasn’t there and I’ve never encountered something that I thought was incomplete or incorrect (yet). I also do not feel the urge to enter all my interests or research findings… Read more Wikipedia entry: Ketelhuis
I designed our Masters of Media t-shirts This morning we, Masters of Media, attended the student seminars at the Cross Media conference PICNIC06 at the Westergasfabriek. This is the first Cross Media conference week in Amsterdam and it seems to be a good initiative. But it’s a rather pricey initiative to attend at the cost… Read more Crossmedia conference PICNIC06
Introduction Carbonmade is a Web application which allows you to create and host an online portfolio. Creating a portfolio can be a lot of work and take up all your time. Carbonmade offers a service which allows you to quickly set up a portfolio without any knowledge of creating webpages. This sounds somewhat like a… Read more Web 2.0 review: Carbonmade
Samenvatting Google is op dit moment de onbetwiste marktleider in zoekmachineland en deze positie lijkt onaantastbaar. De vraag is echter of dit wel zo is. Microsoft introduceerde onlangs zijn vernieuwde zoekmachine Live Search waarmee de aanval op de dominante positie van Google wordt ingezet. Deze strijd doet denken aan de browseroorlog uit de jaren negentig… Read more Google VS Microsoft. De strijd om de standaard in zoekmachineland
Summary This thesis deals with the question how animated pedagogical agents can contribute to the learning process of children within a digital learning environment. An animated pedagogical agent can be defined as an agent which has particularly been designed to offer assistance in the learning process. First we will have to examine the process of… Read more Een animated pedagogical agent als leermaatje voor kinderen
Inleiding Zestig jaar geleden beschreef Vannevar Bush het probleem van de toegankelijkheid van de toenemende hoeveelheid informatie. Hij bedacht hiervoor een apparaat, de memex: