On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 13:00, David Van Assche<dvanass...@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 guess tagging of buddies is related in some measure to this? http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release/Roadmap/0.86#Groups Regards, Tomeu > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel