Read Part 1 here. A Second Life Social scientists are beginning to study avatars as a way to study people, and to give more insight on the inner workings of virtual psychology. Researcher James K. …

Origins of the constructed self-image Avatars. Chances are pretty high you’ve created at least one, if not tens of them, during the span of your online life. And no, I’m not referring to those blue creatures from Steven Spielberg’s Avatar.

The expression of emotion in the written word is quite an art. But it’s not very efficient: it takes time and energy to do it right. In the last decades, we’ve iterated through several ways to optimize communicating our emotions. What steps did we go through? It’s all smileys The pace of (digital)…

During our waking hours, we are more likely concerned with privacy and security as the current problems of living with the internet. But the more time we spend online, the more we scatter pieces of ourselves around the web that together form pictures of our real lives, identities, tastes, preferences…

The holiday season is full of traditions. Decorating the Christmas tree, the family gathering, playing board games, pretty lights everywhere. Does it get any better than this? For this article, we’ve looked at ways to enhance the holidays with a touch of digital. …

Ten days ago, we participated in the first ever FrontMania conference, which took place in Rabobank headquarters in Utrecht. As the name already gives away, FrontMania is an event that aims to connect, educate and share passion and enthusiasm for the front-end development. What was on the menu? The beginning of the conference was marked…

Read the part one here. Of late, in film and television, there’s several tales floating around of virtual assistants “going rogue” against their programming. In the movie TAU, an Artificial Intelligence assistant named TAU is designed by an sociopathic tech genius and used for murderous endeavors (as well as its…

Last week we traded our office in The Hague for a beautiful vineyard in the east of Croatia. Why, you ask? “Why not?” is my answer. For a year now, we had a dream of visiting the vineyard which is run by the family of one of our own colleagues…