30th March, 2009
The dissertation hand-in marks that there is only the DirectX coursework and final year project left to complete. Here’s a picture of my two printed documents yesterday ready for binding and handin:
The actual document is available here: 
Dissertation.pdf
8th March, 2009
Something about the sunlight makes me want to take closeup studies of random stuff, even if it’s my pen and dissertation writing:
24th January, 2009
It seems a rather long time ago now, but before starting the final year I decided to look into the world of Second Life because I knew vaguely that I would be including it in my dissertation study and knew that I couldn’t possibly write about it without trying it first.
But as I say, that really does seem a long time ago so I had a small go again to familiarise myself with how it worked and how stupid my online avatar looked :)
Here I am exploring Lilly’s Irish Pub, one of the more refined and complete areas I discovered in my original visit.
9th January, 2009
While searching for writing on forms of communication and a perception of social liberation in virtual worlds, I came across the journals of Nick Yee, exactly the sort of stuff I’m looking for for my dissertation. Here are the relevant links:
22nd October, 2008
I think I’m ready to PDF and send my draft abstract off to Joasia this morning, basically as a general summary or introduction for my dissertation. I know I will probably rewrite it completely since to me writing a summary before starting on the content seems to be the wrong way around.
Here is a different type of abstract however:
12th October, 2008
Here is my finished Dissertation Proposal I submitted by emailing to Geoff Cox, basically outlining the subject and direction of my final year dissertation.
How have the perceived boundaries between virtual worlds and reality become increasingly blurred?
10th October, 2008
I have spent today trying to formulate a more cohesive proposal from Biro spider diagrams, mainly for the dissertation at this stage. However the Dissertation and Final Year Project are going to be closely related so the thoughts at this state apply to both.
Therefore, the general question I have proposed is “How have the perceived boundaries between virtual worlds and reality become increasingly blurred?”
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