I saw this in Geneva today, a sticker on a wall that invite people to "Drop a note: tick here": Why do I blog this? a curious action in the urban practice. What happened here? I am looking forward to get back their and see if someone ticked and put more annotations. This sort of message is more th...
Ethnographic studies of ubiquitous computing
Supporting Ethnographic Studies of Ubiquitous Computing in the Wild by Crabtree,M. Benford,S. Greenhalgh,C. Tennent,P. Chalmers,M., in Proc. ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2006). In this paper, the authors draw upon four recent studies to show how ethnographers are replaying system recordin...
Geotagthings
Julian Bleecker and Will Carter recently released geotagthings, a simple piece of software that allows to assign geographic meta data to arbitrary web resources. otagthings, a new web service designed to quickly and easily assign any web resource — anything with a URL — a location in the normal, hu...
Katamari Damacy affordances
Angel Inokon has a good blogpost about the affordances of Katamary Damacy (the PS2 game in which you have to roll a ball to collect items located everywhere): Three Design Principles Katamari Damacy gets right: - Affordances – affordances enable designers to create gameplay that leverages the natur...
Pick up color readings and transmits them into the viewer's eyes
Monochromeye is a project carried out at the Smart Studio. Part of a more general project, it's actually a portable device with a fingerholder that picks up color readings and transmits them into the viewer's eyes: Monochomeye is one of several optical machines that were built in an art driven rese...
Locative technologies, Where2.0
There is very soon the Where2.0 conference in San José, CA. Lots of promising stuff are going there. Judging from the description, Mike Liebhold's presentation seems to nicely wrap-up what going on so far in the field of "locative technologies/services": Beyond a growing commercial interest in mobi...
The context of a display ecology
In Displays in the Wild: Understanding the Dynamics andEvolution of a Display Ecology, Elaine M. Huang, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Jay P. Trimble is an in-depth field evaluation of large interactive displays; it exemplifies the "context of a display ecology". It's a study about large interactive displays...
Navigating numerically in London
(Via Le Courrier International) In this New Statesman article, journalist Dollan Cannell explains how chinese immigrants manage to navigate through london without knowing how to speak english (and hence being unable to memorize english street/landmark names): here is a new class of Londoners, howev...
Quote from JPod
"So you're like the Internet then - except you're a real person"Douglas Coupland (inJPod). ...
Augmenting Guy Debord’s Derive
Talking with Adam Greenfield about his next work, I though back that I already wrote bits and pieces around the topic of how IT renew the urban experience. The report I called "Augmenting Guy Debord’s Dérive: Sustaining the Urban Change with Information Technology" (.pdf) is a bit old (2003), so th...