Some resources I used: I organized the resources I want to use to build my theoretical framework, which would be mostly about coordination in joint activities: - Big picture = "socially distributed cognitive system": Hutchins, E. (1995). Cognition in the wild. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. - Big pi...
Weblog success is associated with the type of blogging tool used
In "Weblog success: Exploring the role of technology" by Du, H.S, Wagner C., explore weblog success from a technology perspective (weblog-building technology or blogging tool). Based on an examination of 126 highly successful weblogs tracked over a period of 3 months, we categorized weblogs in term...
How architects imagine the way people move in buildings that do not yet exist
In his paper "Imagination as Joint Activity: The Case of Architectural Interaction", Keith M. Murphy examines how "imagining can emerge from a group ofinteractants who use many semiotic media,including talk, gestures, and drawings, to imagine something together". He actually shows how architects im...
Management of innovation, internet and deviance
Just received this abstract: "Hacking Business Model, Hackers impact on innovation, how to deal with them", a thesis July 2006 Doctorate Business Of Administration (Newcastle Upon Tyne) by yannick chatelain which seems to be quite intriguing. Hacking Business model MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION, INTERNE...
Ink printings SL
Recursive Instruments has superb pictures of what they call "Ink printing the primitive Metaverse" (prints from their current show at the Aho Museum in Second Life): Entitled Recusions, the works depict situations you will find every day in Second Life, from play to punishment. The trappings of te...
Collectic: collect access points and combine them in a puzzle
Thanks Cyril for pointing me on Collectic: developed by Jonas Hielscher as a part of a graduation project for the Masters program Media Technology at Leiden University in 2006. I met Jonas in Utrecht few months ago (are you in Basel now? stil in game stuff as I see) and I am always intrigued by wha...
tabulaTouch
tabulaTouch, an interactive table project by Stefano Baraldi carried out at Natural Interaction. Slightly similar to Jeff Han's work, it's mostly because this kind of interface is trendy lately; so it's another occurence of such concept. tabulaTouch can sense multiple points of contact on surfaces ...
Japanese hand calendar
Taken from MAKING MEANING FROM A CLOCK: MATERIAL ARTIFACTS AND CONCEPTUAL BLENDING IN TIME-TELLING INSTRUCTION, a thesis by Robert Frederick Williams. Japanese hand calendar, which uses the structure of the hand to support naming the day of the week that corresponds to a given date; This is an exa...
The cognitive life of things
In the following paper, Edwin Hutchins (proponent of the Distributed Cognition approach/framework) discuss what he calls "the cognitive life of things", attempting to place this in the context of rich multimodal interactions. Hutchins, E. (2006) Imagining the Cognitive Life of Things, presented at ...
Jesus2.0
Via Ektopia, this art project Jesus2.0 ...