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Talking about games, gamification and what I am working on at the moment

Of late, I have been working more and more in the gamification area with QuestaGame. I am finding it getting more and more important in human-computer-interaction, eLearning and marketing. Gamification is the use of game thinking and game mechanics in a non-game context in order to engage users and solve problems (source: wikipedia). I have always been a gamer, whether it’s traditional game you play as a kid on the field, or video games. I remember when I was younger, I would gamify almost everything to make it fun....

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Advanced Javascript Libraries are blurring the lines between front-end and back-end programming, is it a good thing?

As someone who’s working constantly around UX and Human-Computer Interaction, I am always looking at technologies that will help me build interactive items (games, presentation, web ux) more efficiently. Of late, I noticed the emergence of advanced Javascript Libraries that promise to do both front-end and back-end processing on the client side. Sidelined a bit.. while looking at one particular library, I stumbled across this image. Yoda is actually quite dear to me. Not because I like Star Wars (sorry Star Wars fans!!), but because my husband actually told me I...

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Can’t wait to see Game of Thrones Season 3.. here’s the trailer..

Here’s the extended trailer. Have a look.. Daenerys looks cool and I can’t wait to see her dragons and her army. I am also looking forward to see more of Bran Stark and his warg skill. Yea.. I have a soft spot for the fantasy genre. Sorry, this post is kinda lame.. but I have been quite busy in the last few weeks.

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Google is now available in Balinese

Another shoutout for the awesome people at BASAbali. They recently completed the work to launch google in Balinese. With many thanks to Google and the 45 linguists and students from Udayana, Dwijendra and Balai Bahasa who worked with us to translate the 7500 phrases needed for the Google home page and its sub-menus, Google Balinese now joins Google Javanese and Google Indonesia. Please go to the Google Indonesia (www.google.co.id), and select Google in click often, and make it your home page to encourage Google to continue supporting programs which...

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Help preserve the dying ancient Balinese language, get the BASAbali Balinese Language Learning Materials

Holaa People… or should I say OM Swastiatu.. Just want to give a shout out for BASAbali.org. Recently me and the Indonesian crews of ITViz were involved in the development of their Balinese writing online tutorials and setting up their website, youtube, twitter and facebook pages. We are very privileged to be able to contribute to such a good cause. Some background.. BASA: Balinese Language Preservation Corp is a 501(c)(3) organization based in Washington, DC.  Its mission is to bring together experts on Balinese language and culture to create the...

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