Dr. Daniel Cerqui-Ducret is a social and cultural anthropologist who works on neat project: My researches focus on the development of the new information technologies and the 'information society' these technologies are supposed to create. In such a society computers are more and more integrated ev...
VoMIT = voice over misconfigured internet telephones
While doing some weird keywords combination on Mountain View's search engine, I ran across this interesting application allegedly called "Vomit", which means "voice over misconfigured internet telephones": The vomit utility converts a Cisco IP phone conversation into a wave file that can be played ...
Interactive table by Philips
Marc-o points on this new interactive table by Philips: The Entertaible concept is a tabletop gaming platform that marries traditional multi-player board and computer games in a uniquely simple and intuitive way. Entertaible comprises a 30-inch horizontal LCD, sophisticated touch screen-based multi...
Urbanhermes: redefining fashion and identity
Urbanhermes is a project conducted at the Sociable Media Group at the MIT, Medialab by Christine Liu (good blog for knitting fans too) and Judith DonathUrbanhermes is an augmented messenger bag that aims to incorporate the fluid, expressive signals of electronic fashion into the constrained, m...
Pigeon-guided missiles
According to Wikipedia, some folks tried to design a a pigeon-guided missile.. And it appears that those folks were lead by B.F. Skinner, the behaviorist psychology pope: The control system involved a lens at the front of the missile projecting an image of the target to a screen inside, while a pig...
Using technology to encourage displacement
I just blogged on Petistic (our pet-centered stuff blog with Regine and Fabien) this improbable tool called Pee Post. The point of this tool is to encourage pets to eliminate in a specific area: This reminds me this mosquito sound generator which aimed at avoiding teenagers loitering: a device that...
Mobile phone location in public places
A good one about mobile phone location in public plaecs: WHERE'S THE PHONE? A STUDY OF MOBILE PHONE LOCATION IN PUBLIC SPACES by F. Ichikawa, J. Chipchase, R. Grignani (from Nokia), Mobility 2005 conference in Guangzhou, China. The paper describes characteristics of how mobile phones are carried w...
Some more thoughts about location-awareness (of others) and position sharing
As Fabien points out, the MapQuest FindMe (integrated with AIM) is a clever service that allow users to use manual sharing of one's position. Which is one of the guidelines that would emerge from our CatchBob! experiments. Self-disclosing one's location seems to emerge as a good trend now, both in ...
New interaction design lab
Interaction-Design Lab is a new lab in Milano (started by former-Interaction Design Institute from Ivrea): We are a group of people from different disciplines and countries. We explore interactivity with objects and spaces, telling stories and creating experiences. Our main tools are simple:...
User experience blog trick
I like FJ Vanwingerde's concept he deploys on his blog: Every Friday I pick a paper from the ACM Digital Library that is found by the search term +connected +2005 +"mobile device" +"user interface", and write a brief discussion of it. Why? Because it makes me actually read them. ...