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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
anywhere, everywhere
"Heaven is the anywhere, anytime office. Hell is the everywhere, everytime office" Paul Saffo, 1993 (Seen in Geneva, in May 2007) ...
Continuous partial attention
Attention shared between clients and artifacts, the phone cord creates new boundaries. (Seen at EPFL two day ago) ...
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...
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...