Posts by Sonic & Think Networks

The New Yorker posted an article that details the experiences of immigrants in the restaurant business. The account includes details of global connections, employment agencies serving as brokers, and accounts of how the density of restaurants affects the lives of people who move to America. Long read, but interesting to read while thinking [...]

This article sheds some light on a new game that the SONIC Lab will be looking at as part of the Virtual Worlds Exploratorium. “Travian is the 7th-most popular site in Iran, 9th-most in Libya, 11th-most in Kuwait, and 12th-most in Palestine, and 25th in Iraq.” “…the key to being [...]

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Companies worldwide now have access to the Facebook’s user information database, and can use this information to target ads towards users in mobile applications outside of the Facebook network. This transfer of information across networks will likely have a profound impact on the world of digital advertising. In April, the [...]

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You click a button, the computer wurrs, and out comes a spidery pentagon that claims to map your personality. That pentagon is the product of a software startup called Five, which launched the personality-mapping tool Tuesday. The company analyzes Facebook posts and parses their language structure to deduce a user’s [...]

The paper “Sequential Structural Signatures of Success in Teams and Multiteam Systems” was presented at the ICA annual conference in Seattle, WA. The paper was written by Aaron Schecter and Noshir Contractor of the SONIC lab along with coll...

BY ANNALISE KLINGBEIL, CALGARY HERALD When a 14-year-old girl with Down syndrome went missing earlier this month after walking away from her Calgary home, police used all the resources they could to find her. A helicopter flew over Royal Oak and broadcast details about the missing teen to residents, officers [...]