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Respondesign

responDesign, Inc. was an American video game developer focused on exergaming. It was founded in 2003 by Ted Spooner, Phineas Barnes, and Daryn Chapman in Portland, Oregon, around the concept of a virtual personal trainer for video game consoles. The company operated under the name RespondWell for a period before its acquisition, a name since retired and subsequently adopted by an unrelated entity.

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responDesign, Inc. was an American video game developer focused on exergaming. It was founded in 2003 by Ted Spooner, Phineas Barnes, and Daryn Chapman in Portland, Oregon, around the concept of a virtual personal trainer for video game consoles. The company operated under the name RespondWell for a period before its acquisition, a name since retired and subsequently adopted by an unrelated entity.

Key claims

  1. date of foundation: 2003 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "2003". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372644231

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