Barkhuus, Louise and Paul Dourish, "Everyday Encounters with Context-Aware Computing in a Campus Environment". In Proceedings of UbiComp 2004, Nottingham, UK, 2004. The paper is an empirical investigation of the use of a ubiquitous computing system blending mobile and location-based technologies to...
Portable consoles, network and turbulences
On the 802.11 Turbulence of Nintendo DS and Sony PSP Hand-held Network Games is a paper by Mark Claypool that analyses the traffic characteristics of IEEE 802.11 network games on the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP. Here is the questions they try to answer: What is the network turbulence for hand-held...
Catchbob second run of experiment
Today I started the second run of experiment using CatchBob for my PhD research. The purpose this time are threefold. First and foremost, the new experiment are meant to refine the model I described about how people coordinate in mobile settings (using Herbert Clark's framework of coordination, I d...
A space-labeling technology
A curious project presented at SIGGRAPH: it's called Instant replay and it's done by folks from Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL). Real-world, slow-motion instant replay for air hockey. This new space-labeling technology tracks the pucks with a high degree of accuracy and spee...
Chris Heathcote talk at reboot8
Last week, I missed Chris Heathcote presentation at Reboot (because of an early flight). However, since he put the slides on-line (see his blogpost) and given that people conspicuously took notes about it, I managed to get his stance. His talk (called "mobile 2.0 -a mobile Internet manifesto") was ...
Projects discussed at the 2nd blogject workshop
My (raw) notes about the 3 projects discussed during the second blogject workshop held in Lausanne: 1) Ubicamera (Julian Bleecker, Sascha Pofhlepp, Mark Meagher, Frédéric Kaplan): Starting point: how blogjects would be used to circulate culture. I my camera knows that I am in Amsterdam and also tha...
Computer-supported work at Accenture
WSJ last week had a good piece about computer-supported work over distance at Accenture. "Anyone who says managing this way is easy is lying," says Adrian Lajtha, head of Accenture's financial-services group. (...) With many of them on the road much of the time, partners decided they should live wh...
Eric Drexler on foresight
There has been a good buzz around the virtual edition of Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler. Even though I am not into nanotech stuff, the book is worth to read for other concerns. An excerpt from chapter 3: AS WE LOOK FORWARD to see where the technology race leads, we should ask three questions. ...
Skyscrapers, technology and new sort of places
The Economist about skyscrapers: The skyscraper boom: Better than flying, it's a good overview of the most important question related to that in architecture+economics (innovation in terms of material, models, construction), as well as how technologies allowed it. Of course, to me, they discuss int...
Strawjet: Natural building material from straw
Mailtribune reports on this curious invention called Strawjet: Developed mainly by Ward in his backyard shop and relocated to big shops in Talent last year, Strawjet Inc. produces a machine that gleans waste straw from fields, weaves it into cables, then, using a clay-cement material, binds the cab...