David Sherlock

A map

Interests

Some of this started as a laugh. Wrestling graphs ended up in the PhD. Streaming a choose-your-own-adventure with Harold Bishop has not, yet. I usually start with something people already care about and show it to them. This map is those interests, and some that have not gone anywhere yet.

The map

Solid lines already exist. Dashed lines could become a paper or a class, but have not yet.

Click an interest. Filled pills have already shown up in a paper or a thesis. Outlines have not, yet.

WrestlingDigital footprintsWikipediaClassroom gamesSoapsStreamingText adventuresCookie clickers

Text adventures

ScholarshipNot a paper yet. Vetscape was a vet case in Twine. I never wrote it up. The stream version, chat as the party, is the one that could stand as a paper: live branching cases, decision-making in public, the difference between a PDF case and a room that argues.

TeachingUsed in teaching. Lennox Harlowe, click through, not a PDF. The ethics chatbot is a cousin: a messy situation, then you talk. The teaching use is already there. The live one is not in a timetable yet.

I have written branching cases more than once: a veterinary story in Twine, then a phone wrapper, then chat on a stream wandering a tiny retro world. The classroom version is the case students click through. The stream version is the same idea with an audience typing commands.

Streaming a choose-your-own-adventure with Harold Bishop is not academic. Swapping the dungeon for a clinical scene, and the chat for a cohort, might be. More of a re-skin and a writeup than a new research programme.

Already tied to

  • Streaming. The overlay is a text adventure. Chat is the party.
  • Classroom games. Vetscape was already a teaching case. Twine instead of a PDF.

Could be built

The links from here are already on the map.

On this site: Vetscape, Twitch Games - Harold & Olympus, Chat with Jekyll and Hyde.