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Audio Tours Online
April 11, 2002
While doing research on a proposal for a museum's website information architecture, we were looking into something online akin to those handheld devices that look like oversized phone receivers that provide audio tours you can rent at most major museums. FULL TEXT...
April 11, 2002
Came across something interesting: An AIM-based (AOL Instant Messenger) interactive agent called SmarterChild. It's just like any other buddy, but a) it's not human and b) you can ask it short questions to get info on things like weather, movies, news, stock quote, games and so on. You can even ask it for translations (though it's not great), in the form of "translate I love you from english to french". I haven't had this much fun with text based interaction with a machine since the early days of text base adventure games. FULL TEXT...Pogosticking
April 04, 2002
Eaves-dropping in on some of the threads on SIGIA-L list, I came across a very interesting term that Jared Spool brought up while discussing zoom-in zoom-out behavior: Pogosticking. FULL TEXT... |