John Marshall sent me some information about this marvelous project: Rinaldo and Howard's Autotelematic Spider Bots: spider-like sculptures which interact with the public in real-time, moving around the gallery to find food sources and projecting images of what they can see onto the gallery walls. ...
Tracking and displaying the paths of visitors
Via Computing for Emergent Architecture: You Are Here 2004 (led by Eric Siegel) is an interesting application that tracks and displays the paths of visitors traveling through a large public space. The system displays the aggregate paths of the last two hundred visitors along with blobs representing...
Collaborative WiFi-drinking interface
Lover's Cups, a MIT Medialab project by Jackie Lee and Hyemin Chung: Lover's Cups explore the idea of sharing feelings of drinking between two people in different places by using cups as communication interfaces of drinking. Two cups are wireless connected to each other with sip sensors and LED ill...
Dodge and destroy Calder's kinetic mobiles in an Atari space shooter
Makers of Pac-Mondrian developed a new game called Calderoids in which players have to dodge and destroy Alexander Calder's kinetic mobiles in the triangular ship of Atari's space shooter Asteroids. Calderoids combines the relatavistic theories of Alexander Calder's kinetic sculptures with the virt...
Available position in Olso about tangible computing
Timo told me that there is an available PhD position at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design for his Touch Project: A PhD in Touch Radio Frequency IDentification is a wireless technology that is is currently finding applications in the replacement of barcodes in supply chains and logistics. T...
Virilio on designing accidents before the substance
Another great quote from Paul Virilio's book "L'accident originel": "...imaginons une prospective de l'accident. En effet, puisque ce dernier est innové dans l'instant de la découverte scientifique ou technique, peut-être pourrions-nous, à l'inverse, inventer directement "l'accident" afin de dé...
PSP and GPS: two tracks
There are two ways of thinking in terms of location-based games/services on the Sony PSP. The first track is to wait for the proper GPS adapter Sony is working on, scheduled to be launched before the end of 2006 (as written in the US PlayStation Magazine). It might be a USB adapter already presente...
Research taxonomy by Jarvinen
In How to select an appropriate research method in ergonomic studies? by Jarvinen is very insightful paper describing research methods that could be valuable in my work about HCI/CSCW. The paper provides a taxonomy the research approaches is first divided into two classes, one or both are then divi...
Internal/external memory
While reading studies-observations board topic about "what's the most "everyware" thing available today?", I thought about the importance of USB keys. But here what interest me is less the pervasiveness (or the non-ubiquity) of this objet but rather the fact that lots of people carry a bag of exter...
Human-robot interactions in the NYT
It seems that the NYT somehow covered the human-robot interaction conference. If robots can act in lots of ways, how do people want them to act? We certainly don't want our robots to kill us, but do we like them happy or sad, bubbly or cranky? "The short answer is no one really know what kind of em...