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DIGRA
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Liberal Sims?: Simulated Difference and the Commodity of Social Diversity
This paper outlines how representations of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity intersect with strategies of late capitalism in The Sims, arguably the most popular video game of ...
A. Brady Curlew
IAT
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
A Computer Simulation Laboratory for Social Theories
  We   present   an   agent­based   model   that   employs  different   social   theories   and   their   combination   to  explain and predict social changes.Â...
Joseph M. Whitmeyer, Moutaz Khouja, Ted Carmichael...
CHI
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
RoomBugs: simulating insect infestations in elementary classrooms
This paper presents research on a collaborative learning environment in an urban elementary science classroom. The application, called RoomBugs, simulates a dynamic ecosystem of i...
Michael Barron, Tom Moher, Jeff Maharry
ARC
2009
Springer
175views Hardware» more  ARC 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
A Hardware Accelerated Simulation Environment for Spiking Neural Networks
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) model the biological functions of the human brain enabling neuro/computer scientists to investigate how arrays of neurons can be used to solve comput...
Brendan P. Glackin, Jim Harkin, T. Martin McGinnit...
ATAL
2011
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
ESCAPES: evacuation simulation with children, authorities, parents, emotions, and social comparison
In creating an evacuation simulation for training and planning, realistic agents that reproduce known phenomenon are required. Evacuation simulation in the airport domain requires...
Jason Tsai, Natalie Fridman, Emma Bowring, Matthew...