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About Sharkworld | Sharkworld – a project management game
Sharkworld offers aspiring project managers the opportunity to gain experience with several aspects of project management in an attractive and motivating setting. The game creates a convincing virtual environment in which projects develop in real time (accelerated). The player is forced to act to problems immediately and intervene properly. The game is propelled by an underlying suspense story. It deliberately blurs the line between reality and fiction, to form a lifelike test case for aspiring project managers.
The game will be playable online, but will also make use of other means of communicating with players. The time it would normally take to bring a project like the Sharkworld project to a good end is much longer than the five days playing time in the game. In order to enhance the feeling of passing time, time tightens at strategic moments. A trip from the hotel to an appointment is done at lightning speed. Images of the city with accelerated traffic streams, sunrise and sunset all illustrate the passing of days and nights.
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This viewer shows how information about thousands of object and action categories is represented across human neocortex. The data come from brain activity measurements made using fMRI while a participant watched hours of movie trailers. Computational modeling procedures were used to determine how 1705 distinct object and action categories are represented in the brain. Further details on this work can be found in this video or in the paper by Huth, Nishimoto, Vu and Gallant (2012), “A continuous semantic space describes the representation of thousands of object and action categories across the human brain”, Neuron 2012.
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