A trend I have spotted in street art is the addition of elements on technologies so that it looks more human. Based on the perceived anthropomorphy of certain technological features one can find on a street (tubes, street lights, power adapters...), it's curious to see how adding few signs may try ...
Turning a conference intro a creative event
One of the innovation we're trying to bring forward at LIFT07 (7-8-9 February 2007 Geneva, Switzerland) is to have a more creative and interactive platform during the conference. This is going to be LIFT+, a concept intended as a bridge between creativity and pragmatism, allowing all possible forms...
BlueStates: sense social relationships and build a social network
BlueStates (see also here) by Mark Pesce, John Tonkin, an artwork presented at ISEA2006 that "art project which uses bluetooth - wireless networking found in many mobile phones and personal computers - to sense social relationships and, from that, to build an emergent model of an individual's socia...
DNA tatoo = Datoo
Design company Frogdesign imagined the concept of Datoo (DNA tatoo): The concept of the Dattoo arose in response to current trends towards increasing connectivity and technology as self-expression. (... The idea of DNA tattoos (Dattoos) is to use the body itself as hardware and interaction platform...
Journal paper published
My first journal paper has been published: Collaboration in a multi-user game: impacts of an awareness tool on mutual modeling by N. Nova, T. Wehrle, J. Goslin, Y. Bourquin and P. Dillenbourg, Multimedia Tools and Applications (2006). This paper presents an experimental research that focuses on col...
About urban playgrounds
Urbanism magazine Metropolis featured an article about city recreational space interestingly entitled "The Politics of Play (by Linda Baker). It starts from the observation that "The playground is the McDonald’s of landscape design" since it is the same flat surface everywhere: (picture taken by m...
Best tool ever?
For compulsive note-takers like me, this tool is of tremendous value: ...
Virtual gold and tool creativity
ige (Internet Gaming Entertainment) is an intriguing website/company that allows people to buy and sell gold for MMORPG. So people who don't have time to farm can busy gold and use it for them or their guild. What is interesting is that people who used to do it on eBay now have a specific platform ...
Terra Nova Symposium
There will be a State of Play/Terra Nova Symposium on December 1-2 in NYC. It seems to be of great interest to my research (even though writing my phd dissertation will prevent me from any trip overseas). I would be tremendously interested by: 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Methodologies and Metrics As with...
ThingM
Mike Kuniavsky now announced the lauching of his company (along with Tod Kurt) called "ThingM" (to be pronounced "thingum"). As described by Mike: ThingM is a design and development studio focused exclusively on ubiquitous computing. We have many hopes for the company, but my dream is to ret...