(via)Tangible Play: Research and Design for Tangible and Tabletop Games is a workshop at the 2007 Intelligent User Interfaces Conference organized by Elise van den Hoven and Ali Mazalek. Many people of all ages play games, such as board games, PC games or console games. They like game play for a va...
Vibefones
(this one's for your emily): VibeFones: Socially Aware Mobile Phones by Anmol Madan, Alex ìSandyî Pentland . A paper that is going to be presented next friday in Montreux, Switzerland for the International Seminar of Wearable Computing. In this paper, we describe mobile social software that uses lo...
Wireless Internet is Like Magic
Wireless Internet is Like Magic: that's what this poster says (spotted in Lausanne, Switzerland). ...
Wii wheel
UbiSoft and Thrustmaster recently revealed a very intriguing Wii controller: a steering wheel. No big suprise here but what is strikingly curious is the fact that the wheel has no physical anchor to the ground, as with traditional steering wheels. It basically works simply as a controller device th...
Navigation Assistance and Spatial Learning
Münzer, S. (2005): Navigation Assistance Can Prevent Spatial LearningPoster presented at the X. European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition (EWIC), St. Andrews, Scotland, Juni 2005. A very interesting research poster that shows the results of a study about pedestrian navigation assistance. It examin...
Katamari Damacy, Marx, collecting stuff and location-based applications
People interested in curious cultural mash-up might have a look at this critique Katamary Damacy using Marxist, Structural, and Jungian schools of criticism by Ryan Stancl. I was intrigued by the critique of stuff collection: But why is there all this emphasis on collecting in Katamari Damacy? Ig...
Steven Johnson on Spore
The NYT has a very long and insightful piece called The Long Zoom by Steven Johnson. It's mostly about exemplifying how we have new "ways of seeing” (satellites tracking in on license-plate numbers; Google maps that take you from a view of an entire region to the roof of your house...) with the fut...
CNIUM2006: surface subways, prabsence and the "why" question
The CINUM seminar just ended, so here are some raw thoughts about the whole event (drawn from my impression + discussion with various people there). The idea of these 2 days was to mix expert discussions and group workshops to - in the end - develop foresight scenarios (2026). The audience was very...
Water suit for AIBO
Picture of the AIBO water suit (taken a while ago but showed yesterday at the Sony CSL Paris 10 years event in Paris), it has actually been designed by students from ECAL: This was part of the exhibit "A Robot's Playroom" (Frederic Kaplan, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Martino d'Esposito and ECAL Design St...
Facts from today for the seminar
Deeply engaged into the CINUM seminar, I just have time for few facts I ran across this morning on the ACM Tech News: Designers will be able to convert a sketch of a Web page into a functional Web page using a new software tool that is being developed by researchers at the University of Auckland in...