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Persuasive Computing

Persuasive Computing, sometimes called captology, is a field concerned with altering an individual?s attitudes, beliefs or behaviour through use of computer mediated environments to shock or educate.

A sub-field of pervasive computing which is growing in traction, is known as persuasive games.


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Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames is a book written with the goal of showcasing to the non-gaming world, how video games (and by extension / extrapolation, virtual worlds) are a true artistic and serious medium. How they can showcase how both how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgements about them.



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The Future of Clinical Computing: A Vision from Panasonic

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Connected cars
An article from the BBC on the coming convergence of smart grid computing and augmented reality for motoring - cars that know what is ahead and react to changing conditions.

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Virtual Clothing Mirror
An augmented reality mirror powered by quite considerable computing resources, allows clothes to be tried on virtually, realistically, and accounting for all body movements in real-time.

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Engineering Everquest


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January 26-29, 2017.
Silicon Valley, USA.

The 2017 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communication (ICNC) is a premier conference in the computer and communication fields, which is to be held in Sil...

Talking to a cat can be a bit of a let-down, even if it's a computerised one. For a start, most of them don't talk like cats, or even much like people. The same thing happens when you try to interact with Bugs Bunny or your favourite Mr a...

Pervasive 2006, the The 4th international conference on pervasive computing will be held at The Burlington, Dublin, Ireland, on May 07-10, 2006.

The conference will cover the following topics:

# Device, comm...

NVIDIA Corporation today unveiled the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing (HPC) market, based on its new generation CUDA processor architecture, codenamed "Fermi".

Designed from the gro...


Sun Grid costs users $1 (53p) for an hour's worth of processing and storage power on syst...