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The most striking feature of diffusion theory is that, for most members of a social system, the innovation-decision depends heavily on the innovation-decisions of the other members of the system. In fact, empirically we see the successful spread of an innovation follows an S-shaped curve (23). There is, after about 10-25% of system members adopt…
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IEEE Spectrum: Game Design: Sometimes It Is Rocket Science Blakely credits his gaming acumen to his space career, which included a five-year stint building payloads and embedded systems as a computer programmer and research scientist, first at the University of Alabama’s Consortium for Materials Development in Space, and then at Teledyne Brown Engineering, both in…
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“While the notions of interdisciplinary philosophy date back to a renaissance synthesis of different branches of knowledge, interdisciplinary concepts and their applications have received renewed interest lately. György Kepes and Frank Malina were pioneers of these ideas already in the middle of the last century. They shared a humanist ideal which was perceived by many…