Second Life, the Cyberarium

on the artificial? inte(g)ractive social environment

study on SL by Daniele Rome. Copenhagen university. jan 2007.



concl: It is certain the coming of synthetic worlds.. Governments, companies and people have to work to create a good membrane between these worlds for a future co-existance.




a peack:
Slide 62- "The Membrane can be considered a shield of sorts, protecting the synthetic world form the outside world. This membrane is actually quite porous…people are crossing it all the time in both directions..as a result, the valuation of things in cyberspace becomes enmeshed in the valuation of things outside cyberspace". Castronova

searching for relevance

first attempt: organize all your electronic information into a time-ordered stream, like a supercharged email inbox.

We were an early pioneer in desktop search and got arrows in our backs. Our problem was that we tried to change user behavior in two ways:
- first, we asked users to abandon files and folders.
- our second mistake was to ask users to view search results sorted by time instead of relevance

We were trying to push time order as being more useful than poor relevance, citing the power of chronological recall and narrative storytelling. But user behavior in search was already set and we couldn't change it.


zoundry blogs

Drawball

from chaos to community.

the social drawing expriment.

Eyetrack III

Poynter's third reading behaviour research project