Beyond gestural interactions, this nose-based interface developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute by Zane Van Dusen and Pauline Oliveros is curious: "A computerized instrument that allows people to play music with the tip of their nose could give those who suffer from physical disabilities, suc...
IEEE Spectrum on Megacities
The last issue of IEEE Spectrum is about "megacities" and how to solve some of the big engineering challenges we face as the world's cities multiply. There is a good bunch of articles about various topics. Some notes about the one I've been interested in: How to See the Unseen City By Sandra Upson ...
Technology use in Spiritual Formation
It's mostly curiosity that lead me to this project led by Susan Wyche with Gillian Hayes, Lonnie Harvel, and Beki Grinter. As described on the webpage: "Churches are increasingly using technology for spiritual purposes. Sermons are being podcast, PowerPoint slides are replacing hymnals, and e-mail ...
Second Life evolutions
BW on SL and alternatives. The claim of the author is that "companies are thinking twice about the popular virtual world are finding more security and flexibility in alternatives". Why? some excerpts helps to describe the reasons: "the Web-based parallel universe is a messy marketplace where you're...
Landlines downhill
Seen this morning at Copenhagen airport Communication in public space reshuffled... but it would perhaps be curious to keep a *telephone* area in which people can use their cell phone... ...
Reboot9.0 doggy bag
Some notes about the first day at Reboot9.0. Highlights were: Kars Alfrink (Mobile Social Play) The talk introduced very relevant design guidelines to design for "mobile social play" 1. Design for different level of player engagement (casual, hardcore...). Keep people there, engaged gradually to p...
My talk at Reboot9.0
Slides from my Reboot talk are here (pdf, 1.1Mb). The presentation I made, entitled "Hybridization, fusing, melting, coalescence and salmagundi" was about hybridization. I basically gave an overview of what I find interesting in projects about hybridization of the digital and the physical, a sort ...
Wave your hand sign
This icon is used in danish trains to tell people that they can wave their hand in front of a sensor so that doors could be opened: Interestingly, in other countries like Switzerland there are no signs, people just learn how this work and eventually wave their hand. ...
Love+access
Arrived in Copenhagen today, for Reboot. Picture taken this afternoon, technology of access marked by a heart drawn by a passer-by. Love+access, there was surely some good motivations because there are no precise affordance to draw this shape around this key hole.. ...
Ethnography and warfare
Via Space and Culture, the concept of "ethnographic intelligence". What a term, it reminds me of the name of a workshop at Doors of Perception called "Guerilla Ethnography". Here is how this concept is defined: "As recent debate, especially in the services, attests, there is an increased demand for...