Quick notes on Jan Chipchase's talk

Watching Jan Chipchase's talk at Nokia Connection 2007 (see the podcast here), I tried to take some notes about the sort of questions Jan addresses related to the "material" he and his team collect:- find the lessons about why people are doing x and y? what motivations and apply it to other context...

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Doing research

Doing research is facing this sort of email in the same hour: "Email 1: Dear Mr. Nova, I have the pleasure to announce you that the Advisory Board of XXXXX has chosen your proposal ... Email 2: Dear Dr. Nicolas Nova, We have received the reports from our advisors on your manuscript, "Blah Blah Blah...

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Street complexity

The complexity of indications on street pavement in Geneva: - Green is to represent tram paths but the information is for pedestrians, cars and bikes since the tram pilot knows obviously that he/she only go straight. - Red is to represent bike paths: useful for cars and pedestrians to know where N...

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Digital input on the street

I love these street-machines that allow you to print your pictures. The best part for me is the INPUT system, look at that machine spotted yesterday in Renens, Switzerland: 2 interesting things: - Such a great variety of input (I only miss the floppy disc reader). One can also wonder if there are ...

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The layering of infrastructures in urban computing

In Getting Out of the City: Meaning and Structure in Everyday Encounters with Space , Bell and Dourish addresses the different layering of infrastructures in any urban environments: it's physical (topologies), historical and cultural. On top of that, ubiquitous computing adds new infrastructural la...

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new venture: space_time_watch

Recently started a new collection of cues about a near future laboratory vector, it's callec space_time_watch and it's about the user experience of time in various spaces: the usage and the tweaking of tools related to time (clocks, watches), the cultural issues regarding these artifacts, the cultu...

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anywhere, everywhere

"Heaven is the anywhere, anytime office. Hell is the everywhere, everytime office" Paul Saffo, 1993 (Seen in Geneva, in May 2007) ...

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Space and place consideration in the use of public WiFi

Morning read in the train: Of Coffee Shops and Parking Lots: Considering Matters of Space and Place in the Use of Public Wi-Fi by Alena Sanusi & Leysia Palen. The paper reports an exploratory about how the understanding of space and place matters in accessing free and public WiFi. The emphasis is p...

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LIFT08 program released

We presented yesterday the current state of the program of LIFT08 in Geneva. As last year, we will have workshop on wednesday (Feb 6th) and talks/discussion on thursday/friday (Feb 7-8). We will announce other speakers soon, with some potential surprises. Current tracks and speakers: Internet in s...

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