This is the research diary of researcher Lisbeth
Klastrup, since february 2001 sharing her thoughts on life, universe, persistent online
worlds, games, interactive stories and internet oddities with you on the www.
I am currently on leave from the IT University
of Copenhagen, and from aug. 2006 - aug. 2007 working as Associate Research Professor at the Center for Design Research Copenhagen, an independant center situated at the School of Architecture. During this year, I will be working on a book about the development of aesthetics, design and interaction on the WWW, together with colleague Ida Engholm.
My blog often reflects how busy I am in general, so posting may be pretty irregular, as well as my potential response to comments. But I read them!
My list of publications.
My official homepage at ITU.
Contact:
lisbethATklastrupDOTdk
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©Lisbeth Klastrup 2001-2007
When reviewers don't understand you...
or at least seem not to have understood the intentions of your work, it can be pretty frustrating.
Our anthology got a rather negative review in Information (the Danish version of Le Monde - the most dense and intellectual of the nation-wide news papers)last week. I could write a lot of things in "defense" of our book, but have chosen not to do so. Read the book fully, then the review - and then we can discuss...
or at least seem not to have understood the intentions of your work, it can be pretty frustrating.
Our anthology got a rather negative review in Information (the Danish version of Le Monde - the most dense and intellectual of the nation-wide news papers)last week. I could write a lot of things in "defense" of our book, but have chosen not to do so. Read the book fully, then the review - and then we can discuss...
Bloglines gets awarded as being amongst worlds best newssite
according to this article in Politiken.dk - they are now calling for the Danish readers suggestions for best webpages. I wonder if the Danish Blogbot.dk could make it into that list?
according to this article in Politiken.dk - they are now calling for the Danish readers suggestions for best webpages. I wonder if the Danish Blogbot.dk could make it into that list?
Shortcut to the good lit exam?
Interesting little site at textanalyse.dk where you can learn about how to analyse various forms of text. Seems to be targeted at high school users/students judging from the FAQ.
Interesting little site at textanalyse.dk where you can learn about how to analyse various forms of text. Seems to be targeted at high school users/students judging from the FAQ.
The Cost of Virtual Land
is described in this small article on the prices in Second WorldPris på virtuel jord stiger - but also in Project Entropia interesting things are happening in relation to property owning and property claims. I wonder when the job as virtual real estate agent will start to feature as a character option in the more economically savy game- and entertainment worlds;)!
is described in this small article on the prices in Second WorldPris på virtuel jord stiger - but also in Project Entropia interesting things are happening in relation to property owning and property claims. I wonder when the job as virtual real estate agent will start to feature as a character option in the more economically savy game- and entertainment worlds;)!
Solving "crimes" can earn you money...
The Danish website CrimeCode.Com - den danske platform for efterlysninger! is a "real life" version of the collective detective, much talked about in relation to the group "Cloudmakers" which formed around the puzzle/mystery pervasive game related to the A.I. movie. At Crimecode.com, people simply put out announcement for missing items (cars and pets rank high) and other people outthere can help keep an eye on them. There are real money rewards attached to many of the "missing" announcements.
The Danish website CrimeCode.Com - den danske platform for efterlysninger! is a "real life" version of the collective detective, much talked about in relation to the group "Cloudmakers" which formed around the puzzle/mystery pervasive game related to the A.I. movie. At Crimecode.com, people simply put out announcement for missing items (cars and pets rank high) and other people outthere can help keep an eye on them. There are real money rewards attached to many of the "missing" announcements.
5 KM!
Today I completed my first 5 kmwoman's run. Yes! Seeing that my friend and I started practising not much more than a month ago, I'm pretty happy that I was able to complete it in one go - had I been of a more primitive nature, I would probably have done the Tarzan-thing when passing the goalpost!
Thought-provoking was it, that all the women were very courteous while running (making way for faster runners, children etc), but as soon as we passed the goalpost and reached the "free samples tents" area, war broke loose with people stepping on each other's toes to get just one more minibox of Nestle's Fitness or Snack'a'Jacks. Is it in our genes to desire free stuff more than physical trials?
Today I completed my first 5 kmwoman's run. Yes! Seeing that my friend and I started practising not much more than a month ago, I'm pretty happy that I was able to complete it in one go - had I been of a more primitive nature, I would probably have done the Tarzan-thing when passing the goalpost!
Thought-provoking was it, that all the women were very courteous while running (making way for faster runners, children etc), but as soon as we passed the goalpost and reached the "free samples tents" area, war broke loose with people stepping on each other's toes to get just one more minibox of Nestle's Fitness or Snack'a'Jacks. Is it in our genes to desire free stuff more than physical trials?
A discipline...
Food for through in this quote, which I came across in an article by Ken Friedman:
“conceptions of the structure and scope of a discipline are social constructs that include certain objects within that domain and exclude others. Depending on the level of articulation, the outline of a discipline dictates what the central objects of inquiry are, how they should be conceptualized, what the most important problems are and how they should be studied. It also suggests what kind of solutions are fruitful. Although articulation is usually general, it shapes the solutions to specific research projects. This general frame is the toolbox from which researchers pick solutions without necessarily knowing they are doing so” (Vakkari 1996: 169).
I like it that the quote ends by stating that researchers perform discplinary science without "necessarily knowing that they are doing so". Sometimes we tend to forget that even though our domaine is science, our daily practices are often shaped by intuition, rather than rational thought.
Friedman, Ken. 1997. “Design Science and Design Education.” in The Challenge of Complexity. Peter McGrory, ed. Helsinki: University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH. 54-72.
Vakkari, Pertti. 1996 “Library and Information Science: Content and Scope,” in Information Science: From the Development of the Discipline to Social Interaction. Johan Olaisen, Erland Munch-Pedersen and Patrick Wilson, editors. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, pp. 169-231.
Food for through in this quote, which I came across in an article by Ken Friedman:
“conceptions of the structure and scope of a discipline are social constructs that include certain objects within that domain and exclude others. Depending on the level of articulation, the outline of a discipline dictates what the central objects of inquiry are, how they should be conceptualized, what the most important problems are and how they should be studied. It also suggests what kind of solutions are fruitful. Although articulation is usually general, it shapes the solutions to specific research projects. This general frame is the toolbox from which researchers pick solutions without necessarily knowing they are doing so” (Vakkari 1996: 169).
I like it that the quote ends by stating that researchers perform discplinary science without "necessarily knowing that they are doing so". Sometimes we tend to forget that even though our domaine is science, our daily practices are often shaped by intuition, rather than rational thought.
Friedman, Ken. 1997. “Design Science and Design Education.” in The Challenge of Complexity. Peter McGrory, ed. Helsinki: University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH. 54-72.
Vakkari, Pertti. 1996 “Library and Information Science: Content and Scope,” in Information Science: From the Development of the Discipline to Social Interaction. Johan Olaisen, Erland Munch-Pedersen and Patrick Wilson, editors. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, pp. 169-231.
A review!
And a mostly nice one - of our book Digitale Verdener from Berlingske Tidende June 3rd:De nye digitale verdensordener
And a mostly nice one - of our book Digitale Verdener from Berlingske Tidende June 3rd:De nye digitale verdensordener
Redesigning Jacob Nielsen
There has been a contest amongst webdesigners, calling for a redesign of Jacob Nielsen's homepage useit.com. See the Reuseit winners on the builtforthefuture website.
There has been a contest amongst webdesigners, calling for a redesign of Jacob Nielsen's homepage useit.com. See the Reuseit winners on the builtforthefuture website.
A Friendly Poster Face
An old friend, Rachid el Mousti, is running for EU Parlament, and suddenly I see his face all over town. It's a somewhat surreal experience. However, he is one of the sharpest thinkers I know and a true idealist at heart, so I wish him the best of luck - and lots of votes!
An old friend, Rachid el Mousti, is running for EU Parlament, and suddenly I see his face all over town. It's a somewhat surreal experience. However, he is one of the sharpest thinkers I know and a true idealist at heart, so I wish him the best of luck - and lots of votes!
In-game drug addiction!
Following a brief note in Politiken (yes, I have had time to make up for several days of non-news reading today), hereby a link to the text-based online world Achaea , that has introduced a narcotic drug into their game. Gleam boosts certain of your skills for a while (like dexterity), but might also lead the drug-using character to be addicted to the drug or having serious withdrawal symptoms, or even dying from an overdose.
Follow-ups: see this comment at Slashdot; a Wired article discussing Gleam and other drugs in other worlds (like Speed of the Serpent in A Tale of the Desert - you need to take an antidote to counteract the drug within a given time limit in order not to loose your character (this world has permadeath); a player discussion at MSN community for Achaea - and some interesting comments over at Terra Nova.
[My personal interest in this is not so much the addiction discussion, but rather the way that this discussion of in-game drug use and its effects also help bring out people's views on death and bodily malfunction in the gameworld, and on the relation between game design choices and player strategies]
Following a brief note in Politiken (yes, I have had time to make up for several days of non-news reading today), hereby a link to the text-based online world Achaea , that has introduced a narcotic drug into their game. Gleam boosts certain of your skills for a while (like dexterity), but might also lead the drug-using character to be addicted to the drug or having serious withdrawal symptoms, or even dying from an overdose.
Follow-ups: see this comment at Slashdot; a Wired article discussing Gleam and other drugs in other worlds (like Speed of the Serpent in A Tale of the Desert - you need to take an antidote to counteract the drug within a given time limit in order not to loose your character (this world has permadeath); a player discussion at MSN community for Achaea - and some interesting comments over at Terra Nova.
[My personal interest in this is not so much the addiction discussion, but rather the way that this discussion of in-game drug use and its effects also help bring out people's views on death and bodily malfunction in the gameworld, and on the relation between game design choices and player strategies]
Blog fictions - blogbusters
Will blogfiction be all the talk, when it comes to discussing the future of literature on the world wide web? Currently, at least blog fictions seem to be getting quite a lot of attention:
Sonia Faleiro on blogfiction:'There is Someone Out There': "Blog Fiction is being celebrated as the hot new literary trend that has revolutionised publishing"
Add to this, this quote from the New Yorker article A Book in You: Suddenly, books by bloggers will be a trend, a cultural phenomenon. You will probably read about it in the Sunday Times. And when that happens the person to thank—or blame—will be Kate Lee.
[Articles pointed to by journalist Anne Mette Lundtofte in a small piece in todays print version of Politiken. Btw, the piece is titled "Litteratur i blogosfæren" which is yet another indication of the fact that blogging terms are indeed becoming part of Danish language]
Will blogfiction be all the talk, when it comes to discussing the future of literature on the world wide web? Currently, at least blog fictions seem to be getting quite a lot of attention:
Sonia Faleiro on blogfiction:'There is Someone Out There': "Blog Fiction is being celebrated as the hot new literary trend that has revolutionised publishing"
Add to this, this quote from the New Yorker article A Book in You: Suddenly, books by bloggers will be a trend, a cultural phenomenon. You will probably read about it in the Sunday Times. And when that happens the person to thank—or blame—will be Kate Lee.
[Articles pointed to by journalist Anne Mette Lundtofte in a small piece in todays print version of Politiken. Btw, the piece is titled "Litteratur i blogosfæren" which is yet another indication of the fact that blogging terms are indeed becoming part of Danish language]
And another Danish definition of weblog:
Some time ago I made a list of Danish weblog terms (Dansk weblog terminologi). Today, I came across IT-leksikon which holds this interesting description of the phenomena:
it-leksikon.dk:
weblog: "elektronisk logbog;er en form for dagbog på Internettet, der underbygger en tendens, om at gøre Internettet til en tumleplads for ideer og tanker, - et sted, hvor man kan udveksle livsopfattelser og meninger med alverden.
Vedligeholdes af en enkelt person: en blogger."
Some time ago I made a list of Danish weblog terms (Dansk weblog terminologi). Today, I came across IT-leksikon which holds this interesting description of the phenomena:
it-leksikon.dk:
weblog: "elektronisk logbog;er en form for dagbog på Internettet, der underbygger en tendens, om at gøre Internettet til en tumleplads for ideer og tanker, - et sted, hvor man kan udveksle livsopfattelser og meninger med alverden.
Vedligeholdes af en enkelt person: en blogger."
Danish Blogs go Audio!
Some of the Danish bloggers have started an interesting initiative: Blogradio.dk - a radioprogamme by and about Danish blogging. The first show takes place on Monday the 7th and will be available on the site. The theme is "comments" and interviews with two avid female Danish bloggers. Dalager reads two pieces from Mikrofiktion + a lot of other stuff which also sound quite good. Thumbs up!
Some of the Danish bloggers have started an interesting initiative: Blogradio.dk - a radioprogamme by and about Danish blogging. The first show takes place on Monday the 7th and will be available on the site. The theme is "comments" and interviews with two avid female Danish bloggers. Dalager reads two pieces from Mikrofiktion + a lot of other stuff which also sound quite good. Thumbs up!
New Danish article by Klastrup online
Touching ground. Got mail that my article for the Danish site "Designværkstedet" is finally online: Interaktionens mange ansigter [The many faces of interaction].
Touching ground. Got mail that my article for the Danish site "Designværkstedet" is finally online: Interaktionens mange ansigter [The many faces of interaction].
Death Stories project
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Conferences
ACE 2007
Mobile Media 2007
MobileCHI 07
Perth DAC 2007
DIGRA 2007
AOIR 8.0/2007
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Towards a Poetics of Virtual Worlds
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Misc
I also used to host & work in a world called StoryMOO.