Welcome to my wiki - a public scratchpad for all my various projects and interests. TauNoyen is the name I used for my software publishing way back in the 80s, so thought I might resurrect it for my new ventures.

This is a wiki to support various personal projects.

  * [[phd|My PhD - Wargaming Urban Conflict]]
  * [[Space]] Related Projects
  * [[Virtual Human]] and Chatbot Work and Research
  * [[Immersive 3D Data Visualisation]] Work and Research
  * [[Virtual Reality and Virtual Worlds]] Work and Research - including The Metaverse Series for publisher Taylor & Francis.
  * GDW [[Traveller]] RPG related work and activities
  * [[Wargaming]] projects
  * [[Tau Noyen Publications]] - my planned imprint for SFRPG and probably historical wargaming publications too
  * [[WebXR]] Playground
  * [[Headcrash]] - micro fan-site for a BBC Radios 1 and 3 SF Drama by Michael Wall, and starring Toyah Wilcox (and even including comments from her about it!)
  * [[Flipside of Dominick Hide]] - micro fan-site for this stunning BBC Play for Today SF drama
  * [[Other Things I Don't Want to Forget About]]
  * [[Family]] related stuff
  * And a little more [[About Me]].

Here are other sites on the Net related to me:

  * [[http://www.daden.co.uk]] - my company specialising in immersive 3D, VR and conversational AI
  * [[http://newconverj.blogspot.com/|Converj]] - my blog, mainly wargaming but some other stuff too
  * [[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Burden|ResearchGate]] - best place to get my academic papers
  * [[https://bathspa.academia.edu/DavidBurden/Papers|Academia.edu]] - may have names of papers not on ResearchGate
  * [[https://medium.com/@davidjhburden|Medium]] - where I tend to post long form pieces on tech
  * [[https://twitter.com/1945Scrapbook]] - During the last months of WW2 when my mum was 8 she and her mum kept a scrapbook of daily news cuttings. I posted them in real-time to Twitter during the 65th Anniversary of the war, but since everyone was in lock-down nobody noticed! Nice to have the scrapbook safely on line though.


My more recent books/chapters:

  * The [[https://metaverseseries.blogspot.com/|Metaverse Series]] from Taylor & Francis, coming in 2024, and for which Maggi and I are co-editors, as well as writing the first of the books.
  * My book on [[http://www.virtualhumans.ai|Virtual Humans]] came out in 2019, from Taylor & Francis
  * I have a chapter on Digital Immortality in another book by my co-author Maggi Savin-Baden - [[http://virtualhumansbook.blogspot.com/2020/04/digital-afterlife-book-is-out.html|Digital Afterlife]]
  * A recent project with MOD led to an eBook on [[https://www.daden.co.uk/_files/ugd/0c2908_52d404a0200a47608cbe13c0b1a7eccb.pdf|Pedagogy for Virtual Reality Training and Education]] - which is now available as a free download


My Halo virtual human is named for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Halo_Jones|Halo Jones]], and nothing to do with the computer game!