Wii Party

The newest game for Nintendo Wii:



It's called 'Wii Party' and probably is going to be my christmas gift!!

What is Wii Party?
Wii Party is a brand new social gaming experience on the Wii™ console to enjoy with your family and friends, featuring 13 unique ways to play over 80 hilarious minigames.

There are Party Games, Pair Games and Minigames.



More info here.

How can this be related to EI?
I've just finished reading an academic paper (Embodied interaction in authoring environments, http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/juanr/papers/physicality.pdf) that talks about the use of Wii remote control to create a dance using Dance Along game authoring environment. It's interesting and worth reading.

JC

Breeching video for assignment 2

Here is our video for assignment 2.



The scenario was a shopping mall (Madeira Shopping @ Funchal, Madeira Island) at lunch time.

The goal was to create a plan where we could break a social rule.
The social rule was related to «eating behaviors» and we had to violate that rule by eating a meal NOT using the cutlery that would normally be used.

We made 5 experiences, and observed different reactions:
- Admiration
- Surprise
- Astonishment
- Staring eyes
- Laughing
- Some indifference

Final conclusion: people reacted more when we were sitting at their table than when we were eating in a different way (people considered it as a space violation).

Enjoy the video, any comments are welcomed.

JC

Term paper topic

Assigment 1 topic is due 13-10-2010.

I've read some papers related to context-aware computing in Education (thanks Ian for sending them), and this is an extensive investigation area.

Cisco is working in this area and have interesting solutions for schools.
They developed CAS (Context-Aware Services) that makes use of wireless devices, RFID tags and sensors to, among other features, indicate whether an asset is in or out of a permissible zone.
More info here.

I've also found a video about this solution.

JC