Yanna Vogiazou's 'multiplayer presence' games are nearing a key trial with Hewlett-Packard's Research Lab in Bristol. The game is a stripped down version of a massively-multiplayer 'city roaming' game envisaged by Yanna and co-designer Bas Raijmakers, simplified for a trial run to test all the gadetry involved. The test version will run on 'fully-loaded' HP…
Yanna Vogiazou's 'multiplayer presence' games are nearing a key trial with Hewlett-Packard's Research Lab in Bristol. The game is a stripped down version of a massively-multiplayer 'city roaming' game envisaged by Yanna and co-designer Bas Raijmakers, simplified for a trial run to test all the gadetry involved. The test version will run on 'fully-loaded' HP…
KMi (Simon Buckingham Shum, Al Selvin and Michelle Bachler) is a founding member of the Compendium Institute, a virtual network to support and develop Compendium as an approach to visual modelling, collaborative sensemaking and group memory. KMi leads the software development of the tool (currently funded by the e-Science CoAKTinG project), and is pleased to…
On Saturday, 30 August 2003, the 1st International Workshop on Scholarly Hypertext was held at the University of Nottingham as part of the ACM Hypertext 2003 (HT03) Conference, the primary international forum for research into hypermedia theory and technology. The purpose of the full-day workshop was to help shape the nascent scholarly hypertext community by…
Hexagon Virtual Office is the code name of a new proof-of-concept exploring the dimension which runs between presence and telepresence systems. In one model of this the CNM team have prototyped a virtual office concept for interested KMi users to explore. You will need a camera, mic and flash 6+ plugged into your browser (it…
Hexagon Virtual Office is the code name of a new proof-of-concept exploring the dimension which runs between presence and telepresence systems. In one model of this the CNM team have prototyped a virtual office concept for interested KMi users to explore. You will need a camera, mic and flash 6+ plugged into your browser (it…
The British summer is here, but knowing how unpredictable the weather can be, wouldn't it be nice to get a live and updating view of the weather around the country from the comfort of your desk? WeatherFlash is a flash movie which does just that – it has been 'thrown' together by Jon Linney and…
The first version of MnM is now available for download at http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/akt/MnM. MnM supports the process of annotating web pages with semantic content, to create a semantic web. The tool provides a number of innnovative features, including both automated and semi-automated support for annotation. It integrates a web browser with an ontology editor and provides…
The BBC News website's technology section today featured a big article on the KMi Live AudioBlog that is running to support Lorenzo's Everest adventure. Whilst we have already had good regional coverage for this work – with newspaper and radio pieces – this is the first big national showing. The website we produced to support…
In the 50th anniversary year of the first ascent of Everest, Lorenzo Gariano (who looks after the plants around KMi) is to take part in an Adventures International expedition to the famous peak. Lorenzo will not be attempting the summit this time as the cost is simply too great, but will be participating in the…
