A nice interface for music selection called MUSIC Table by Ian Stavness. Why do I blog this? this novel way to interact with sound is clever. I like this idea of having a spatial visualization of a digital music collection is utilized to support multi-user interaction. ...
Ludium I: intellectual gathering made of participants embedded in a virtual world
The Arden Institute organized a smart event called 'Ludium I': Ludium I was an effort to develop and prove a radical new paradigm for intellectual gatherings. Abandoning entirely the standard speaker-audience structure, the ludium instead embedded participants in a game designed to generate both ta...
CatchBob! automatic data analysis
Recent advances in the CatchBob replay tool project allowed me to automatically compute a new interesting index for the analysis of our pervasive game: the phasing of the activity. As emerged from the qualitative study of CatchBob!, the game is divided into 3 phases: Dispersion of individuals to e...
Kids, mobile phone and mobile haiku contest
Children and mobile technology: the Japanese experience by Masanao Takeyama, in Proceedings of the Children, Mobile Phones and the Internet: the Mobile Internet and Children Conference, 2003. A paper full of compelling insights about how kids use mobile tech and the Internet: Professor Takeyama des...
PhD mindmap update
After two years working on my PhD, I though it was a good time to update my phd research mindmap. The previous one was here and there is the new version: I only put on the map the topic I adress in the current research, that is why I removed some aspects, especially the whole part concerning the s...
How video-games blur the boundaries of work and play
In his paper The Labor of Fun: How Video Games Blur The Boundaries of Work and Play (Games and Culture, Vol. 1, pg. 68-71 (2006) ), Nick Yee explains how "video games are inherently work platforms that train us to become better game workers". The underyling assumption in this paper is that work bei...
Replay tool project update
Fabrice (the master student I work with) has just completed another step in the replay tool project. The point of this is to have a tool that help us to replay the CatchBob! pervasive game so that I can use it with participants to gather information about their activity, what happened, etc. In the ...
Geospatial web podcast
Locative media freaks, geowankers, GIS hackers should have a glance at this discussion about geospatial web (available as a mp3 here, beware! 17Mb): The many-talented Rekha Murthy was responsible for inspiring and producing the show, which features Mike Liebhold of the IFTF (who wrote most of the p...
Intriguing city marker
At the Lyon Light Festival in 2005, for the Superflux Event (interactive art installation located in lots of places of the 7th arrondissement of Lyon), there was this amazing city market that indicated the presence of art in the building. There was acually a light red light inside. Would this be a ...
Another Furby hacking
eecue.com is into Furby hacking! Here is his research agenda with this marvelous toy: The coolest thing I saw once I opened up Furby was that the board designers were nice enough to leave nice large pads for the RSC-4128 diagnostic interface, which hopefully should allow programming of the Furby. I...