Social Sciences
Social Network Analysis
Amongst my weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, and social network analysis. Applied properly, SNA is a great technique for gathering user data for later use in user-centered design. It can allow you to understand what your user segments are, how they’re connected, and, if you make some unfounded-but-logical assumptions, what their goals...
Thesis: Second Life TPVs (forthcoming)
After much toil, I finally finished my thesis, User-Centered Design in Virtual World Interfaces: A Human Factors Perspective on Third-Party Second Life Viewers at the end of April and was awarded distinction after my defense. As promised, I will soon be sharing the results with the SL community. At the moment, the thesis is currently...
