We are looking to recruit a small number of participants to be involved in trialling a ‘Bin diary’, or to take part in a short focus group. Participants need to be between 18 and 25, and have access to the internet. Preference given to those who like cake! Please see the link for details below- [...]
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Skype and Facebook
The recent announcement that Facebook would be integrating Skype into the social network platform caught my attention. Chat on Facebook has great advantages in that it alleviates your cognitive load (essentially meaning you don’t have to remember great swathes of information) and it allows you to multitask. Your previous conversations with your Facebook friend are [...]
Conference report: KES-AMSTA 2011
A quick update about the KES-AMSTA 2011 conference, which took place between June 29 and July 1, 2011 in Manchester, United Kingdom. The conference attracted many researchers who discussed and presented their work covering subjects such as agent and multi-agent systems and their applications and methodologies. In addition to the main track of the conference, [...]
Open Data Bonanza
There has been much talk recently of the potential use and impact of open data at LiSC including our attendance at an open data master class and a visit from Tony Hirst, a leading UK open data advocate, at a joint LiSC and LNCD meeting. This short(ish!) post gives a brief overview of these two [...]
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