The Effects of Affiliative Motivation and Perspective Taking on Social Taking

This study examined the effects of affiliative motivation, or the desire to get along with someone, and perspective taking, or the ability to adopt another person\u27s views, on social tuning. Participants interacted with either a nice or rude experimenter (affiliative motivation manipulation) who was always wearing a pro-homosexuality tshirt. All participants then completed a sentence unscrambling task, and half unscrambled neutral sentences and half unscrambles perspective-taking oriented sentences. Their implicit and explicit attitudes were measured to determine the extent to which they tuned toward the experimenter. Results show that participants who had affiliative motivation were more likely to tune towards the experimenter than those who had low affiliative motivation

Mobile 3D Game Engine

This project explores the feasibility of a mobile 3D game engine on a smart device. Using OpenGL ES, a graphics library for embedded devices, we have developed Tubetris, a unique and entertaining fully three dimensional puzzle game which runs on a HP iPaq PDA . The game demonstrates the 3D capabilities of mobile devices and that fully 3D applications are indeed possible on mobile devices