Wanderer is a project by Jiri Heitlager & Jonas Hielscher (which I met last sunday). From what they explained me, it's an interesting location-based game. The main idea is very intriguing; it might lead to very curious patterns of movement in space: The game Wanderer was developed during the C...
Modified lift/elevator controller
A lift control panel woody-modified so that people only access few floors (seen in Utrecht): The quality of my picture is actually very bad ...
Studying Location-Based Reminders on Mobile Phones
Place-Its: A Study of Location-Based Reminders on Mobile Phones by Timothy Sohn, Kevin A. Li1, Gunny Lee, Ian Smith, James Scott, and William G. Griswold, Ubicomp 2005. Some excerpts: Context-awareness can improve the usefulness of automated reminders. However, context-aware reminder applications...
Photographing every object used since 2003
A very curious project by Alberto Frigo (professor at the Art and Technology department at the Gothenburg University). Since September 24th, this articts has photographed every object he has used. His purpose is to compile the unique code of different objects an individual uses throughout his life....
About toilet usability
Yes that's a field too! I ran across this interesting blogpost about it. Forget web sites and technology interfaces for a minute. What about public bathrooms? They generally rank high on the "suck meter" for usability and customer experience. Here are just a few common irritants: Horrid stall doors...
Report from the Blogject Workshop at LIFT06
On February 1st, a day before the LIFT06 conference, a workshop about 'Blogjects and the new ecology of things' has been held in Geneva. The purpose of this event was to discuss usage scenarios of Blogjects, the design issues they raises as well as their significance in various contexts. The descri...
Field trial of a location-based annotation system
My colleague Mauro is looking for guinea-pigs for the field trial of his STAMPS application, a location-based annotation system running on mobile phones. STAMPS: Share your experience of the city What is it?This is an academic research project of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. STAMPS...
Gispen XS: table to support collaboration
Dutch designer Emilie Tromp pointed me on her Gispen XS table, which is aimed at acilitating creative collaboration (this is also the subject of her Master's thesis at Industrial Design Engineering of Delft University of Technology). Table for creative collaboration and informal meeting in offices....
Some street objects in Utrecht
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BBC on the Future of TV
According to the Guardian, there's going to be a report about how we will watch TV in the near future, published by the BBC. Some excerpts: The year is 2016 and Chloe is 16. (...) In Chloe's world, there are no TV listings because there are no TV schedules, and there are no TV schedules because the...