Here are my slides from the serie of talk I made at Hybrid World Lab workshop (Mediamatic, Amsterdam), careful, big PDFs over there: An Overview of Hybridized digital-physical worlds: a global picture of the existing or speculative projects regarding the hybridization of the virtual and the physica...
Vocabulary of dual ecologies
Kuzuoka, H., Kosaka, J., Yamazaki, K., Suga, Y., Yamazaki, A., Luff, P. & Heath, C. (2004). Mediating Dual Ecologies, Proceedings of CSCW 2004, Chicago, 8th – 10th November 477-486. In this article about using robots as a communication medium/surrogate device to convey information between people lo...
Glowbots: robot-based evolved relationship
Glowbots is a very intriguing project by Mattias Jacobsson, Sara Ljungblad, Johan Bodin and Jeffrey Knurek (Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute). "GlowBots are small wheeled robots that develop complex relationships between each other and with their owners. They develop attractive patterns ...
Out from 2007 to 2020?
Email received yesterday:"I will be out of the office starting 03.05.2007 and will not return until 01.01.2020. Please note that I am not working at XXXXX since the 3rd of May 2007. You can reach me at : xxxx@newcompany.com" ...
Digital encounters and its characteristics
No time to read and write stuff lately with this mediamatic workshop but presentations here are very insightful. I manage to dig some papers by Avah Fatah gen. schiek who talked yesterday and was particularly interested in one entitled "Exploring Digital Encounters in the City". The paper is about ...
Command Line as the future of interface
When asked about the future of interfaces, Donald Norman points towards the command line, as an interesting metaphor: "What is to replace the GUI? Ah yes, journalists are constantly asking me that question, hoping I will speak of virtual reality implants by which we fly effortlessly through hypersp...
Some quotes from the Mediamatic workshop
Impossible to give a complete picture of the Hybrid World Lab workshop (let's wait to digest stuff and come up with a more articulate summary afterwards). Some bits and pieces, in the form of quotes: "GPS removed me from my surroundings" Timo Arnall "from our perspective, I think it's impossible to...
Asynchronous gaming based on purchases?
(via), World of Warcraft Rewards VISA: "Earn gametime with card purchase: Accrue World of Warcraft gametime at the rate of 1% of every dollar in qualifying purchases. The World of Warcraft Rewards Visa is the only card that pays you to play. Why do I blog this? it's a very intriguing connection be...
"we have stopped building our biggest antennae as monuments"
This Metropolis article is close to some of the elements I presented this morning at the Mediamatic workshop called "Hybrid World Lab". The article basically discusses the visibility of ubiquitous computing, or we'd better say its invisibility that most often the time is caused by the delegation of...
A huge research tool
Visit of the CERN yesterday, had a look at the Atlas experiment: ... this huge particle detectors that help the observation of the collisions of particule in the Large Hadron Collider (surely one of biggest research tool ever made)... which made me think of this quote: "Research is best seen as a ...