[IAEP] personalisation and collaboration

[Walter Bender]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:00 AM, David Van Assche<dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
> Something has been in the back of my head for a while now, ever since I've
> seen the impressive capabilities of being able to share an activity with
> your neighbourhood. Being able to cooperatively use applications brings a
> new level of playability to it all, and it reminds me of when I first saw
> the ability for a computer game to be 'multi-player.'This gave it an extra
> dimension, and with it came the idea of awards for completing certain
> things, which would be displayed in your dashoard somewhere.The award system
> seems even more relevant for education than it did for games. We'v aleady
> mentioned the benefits of an award sysem so I'm not going to regugitate
> that, but what hasnt''t really been spoken about is, how and what kind of
> personal details should the journal store and share. I see this as a
> customisable option, something that can be as simple as only sharing first
> names, or sharing the name of your pet, your favorite colors and foods, the
> languages you speak.
>
> This detailed information about a person is extremely valuable to the
> underlying system, as it can potentially match people against each other.
> This would allow for some interesting possibilities when it comes to
> collaboration, such as the system suggesting users to challenge/collaborate
> with based on personal information. I thought about having a robot that
> lives on an irc channel capable of helping with the collaboration procedure,
> as well as listing achievements, giving data on which users want to
> collaborate, giving help on how collaboration works with particular
> activities, listing which servers have open collaboration, showing the most
> used/highest rated collaborating activities, etc.
>
> I havent thought about this too much in depth, but I know coding a bot is
> not too hard. I see it as an extension to the speak AI, and encouragement to
> join irc. We can even get the bot to accept uploads of raw learning
> materials categorised by subject, which can then be used by content
> creators. it itself could give out quizzes based on particular subjects, or
> interesting pieces of information/knowledge. It could be taught new
> information, by feeding it localised knowledge. It would be important to
> know where we set the limits to what it can do.
>
> Just some food for thought...
>
> David (nubae) Van Assche
>
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In general, the idea of bots living in the Sugar neighborhood is a
theme we haven't explored very much. It would be nice to come up with
a simple, consistent framework for creating such a resource. Making it
available through IRC as well is a cool idea.

-walter

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Walter Bender
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