the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, game studies researchers presented their list of the top 10 most unexpected findings for video game designers over the past year. This marks the fourth year that researchers Ian Bogost, associate professor at Georgia Tech; Jane McGonigal, director of games research and development at the Institute for the Future; and Mia Consalvo, associate professor at Ohio University, have presented their list. But this year audience members â” both at the panel and via Twitter â” ranked the findings in order of their importance. â’Asking the audience to order the top 10 gave...
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Hockey’s Original Guidebook Now Online
As the 25th annual Hockey East championships get underway later this month (March 20 -21), hockey fans, players, coaches and officials can turn to a new â’“ yet very old â’“ source for the sportâ’s rules, history and lore. The University of New Hampshireâ’s Charles E. Holt Archives of American Hockey has scanned what may be ice hockeyâ’s earliest guidebook (loaned by the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame) and made it publicly available on the Web for the first time ever. The â’1898 Spalding Ice Hockey and Ice Polo Guide,â’ printed in 1897″ and predated any similar Canadian guidebook...
McMansions Are Just Too Tacky
A new study provides a first glimpse of exactly what people find offensive about super-sized houses which have sprouted up in neighborhoods around the country. Researchers found that people particularly dislike when these large homes, often derisively called â’McMansions,â’ are more than two times as tall as surrounding homes, and when their architectural style is not compatible with the neighboring homes. The results can provide guidelines for communities that are struggling to regulate the construction of these super-sized houses in existing neighborhoods, said Jack Nasar, co-author of the study and professor of city and regional planning at Ohio State...
Dating :: Men Easy To Read
When it comes to assessing the romantic playing field — who might be interested in whom — men and women were shown to be equally good at gauging men’s interest during an Indiana University study involving speed dating — and equally bad at judging women’s interest. Researchers expected women to have a leg up in judging romantic interest, because theoretically they have more to lose from a bad relationship, but no such edge was found. “The hardest-to-read women were being misperceived at a much higher rate than the hardest-to-read men. Those women were being flirtatious, but it turned out...
Star Trek Becoming Reality : Beam Me Up Scotty
First it is remote controls, robot wars, stun guns, laser beams, fancy jumpsuit uniforms and now teleportation. For the first time, scientists have successfully teleported information between two separate atoms in unconnected enclosures a meter apart â’“ a significant milestone in the global quest for practical quantum information processing. A team from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) at the University of Maryland and the University of Michigan has succeeded in teleporting a quantum state directly from one atom to another over a substantial distance. That capability is necessary for workable quantum information systems because they will require memory storage...