For those who're wondering about email and potential physiological consequences... TAYLOR Howard, FIELDMAN George et LAHLOU Saadi, "The impact of a threatening e-mail reprimand on the recipient's blood pressure", Journal of Managerial Psychology, January 2005, vol. 20, n°. 1, p. 43-50. Purpose - Th...
Google Space in Metropolis
In the july issue of Metropolis, Clive Wilkinson Architects diagrammed 13 work settings for the Googleplex. These can be considered as pattern meant to afford specific behavior (nomadic work, chance encounters, focused concentration...) mixed with a certain flexibility. ...
Tech for kids tracking/surveillance
(Via Dr.Fish), SF gate has an article about tech toys/gadgets for kids tracking/surveillance; there's a good list of artifacts that can send information about kids' behavior (it's very often LBS): CarChip, made by Davis Instruments: About the size of a 9-volt battery, the device plugs in beneath a ...
GE Healthcare 3D mouse
Via, this news: GE Healthcare 3D mouse (a General Electric company): The 3D Mouse is a user-interface device for sterile surgical settings that allows the physician to more easily view real-time 3D images during surgical procedures. The 3D Mouse combines the control of six distinct, complex user mo...
Mario Soup by Ben Fry
Mario Soup is an information visualization project by Ben Fry that aims at "revealing a beautiful soup of the thousands of individual elements that make up the game screen. It used the "the unpacking of a Nintendo game cartridge, decoding the program as a four-color image, revealing a beautiful sou...
The Web as a social hypertext
According to the Wikipedia, Web2.0 "refers to a second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that lets people collaborate and share information online. In contrast to the first generation, Web 2.0 gives users an experience closer to desktop applications than the traditional static ...
A review of "where the action is?" (Paul Dourish)
Dourish, P, (2001)"Where the Action Is : The Foundations of Embodied Interaction", MIT Press: Cambridge. The book is about the common thread between current developments in Human-Computer Interaction and Computer-Supported Collaborative Work: embodiment, which is a central underlying concept...
Social Visualizations Claims by T. Erickson
Erickson, T. Designing visualizations of social activity: six claims. In proceedings of CHI 2003. The authors of this paper describes a set of claims drawn from his work about visual representations of groups in online environments. He briefly presents the work done with Babble (see representation ...
Agent V on Nokia 3230
One of the most intriguing game I played lately is "Agent V" on the Nokia 3230 cell phone. This is an augmented reality game that puts the player in the middle of the action: using the camera viewer and the motion sensor in the phone, you move the phone to catch or shoot in virtual artifacts which ...
Portable Zebra Crossing
Just in case you need it: Portable Zebra Crossing: The Pedestrian's Best Friend: The tyranny of the automobile makes life increasingly tough for ecoconscious pedestrians, and finding a safe place to cross can result in inconvenient diversions and wasted time. Now the pedestrian can fight back. When...