Eric Crampton • Mar 19, 2013 •
Choose a double Econ/Psych major under the B.A. or B.Sc. schedules, or a Psych major with an econ minor, add in some courses in marketing after finding the ones that have some rigour. Go heavy on stats where you can. And then you can do this. As a Mar... Read More
Robert Hickson • Mar 14, 2013 •
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London has just released an app (available free for both Apple and Android devices) to collect information on brain functions. It is crowdsourcing in the form of a game – The Great Brain Experiment. The researchers behind it are interested in four questions: “How good is your memory?”,“How impulsive … Read More
Robert Hickson • Mar 18, 2012 •
In an earlier post I noted the emergence of game playing to solve real world problems. As you may expect, Silicon Valley is establishing companies to do this. One is Innovation Games. They are already working with some large multinational companies to help improve strategy and determine which products to focus on, as well as using … Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Jun 15, 2011 •
I awoke this morning to a rather epic amount of win. Included in this was an email from Spongelab asking if I’d like to register with them. I did, and I have. For those of you not suffering from attention issues (i.e. who didn’t immediately click on the hyperlink and will never read the rest of this post), … Read More
Darcy Cowan • Jun 15, 2011 •
Over the last few years evidence has been mounting that violence in the media and especially interactive media such as video games contributes to aggression displayed by individuals.[1] This ability to influence our behaviour in such a way is concerning and may undermine attempts to build a peaceful society that nevertheless respects a person’s right [...] … Read More