Another World

A Door into Another World

Is it possible to design programs which each user can change according to his preferences? Not an illusion of such a thing that adaptive interface provides but really an interface ruled by users? What is the main problem of such design and what is the solution to this problem? This short article gives a glimpse into the theory discussed in the book “The World of Movable Objects”. Any article ha...

Take a Stroll in Another World

Another World II is a print by the famous Dutch artist M. C. Escher, depicting a cube with arch-like openings on each side. What makes the print interesting is that the depicted views in the arches are inconsistent, leaving the spectator puzzled as to the " impossible assembly " of views from different perspectives. In our work we invite the reader – and more so, the user of our software – to e...

Another view of the "small world"

Coincidental re-introductions to established acquaintances suggest that one draws one’s acquaintances from a hypothetical, homogeneous “small world”, not to be confused with an acquaintance chain or an acquaintance volume. The world’s size can be estimated from the coincidences, given an estimate of the acquaintance volume. A typical Freeman–Thompson phonebook test score and a dozen coincidenta...

70 Another Science for Another World ? : Science and Genomics at the London Social Forum 1

Playing another Game: Twinking in World of Warcraft

This paper investigates one the more controversial player practices in MMORPG’s, twinking, not in terms of value judgment but as a play from negotiating, working against and even transforming a MMORPG’s intended structure and design. Making use of participatory ethnographic observations of one of World of Warcraft’s particular forms of twinking, this devious behavior is discussed as being luxur...