This picture shows a GPS collar for elephant tracking: It's part of an interesting project (described here) that aims at: Through GPS tracking, STE has gathered fine-scale data on elephant movements, identifying specific elephant corridors and core parts of their range, and highlighting the need fo...
Analyzing collaborative technology use (for my work)
I sketched a brief description about how we work on colaborative technology analysis at the lab. This drawing is NOT exhaustive at all but is meant to show which dimensions I am focusing on for my PhD: the information flow, the social and cognitive processes that occur in small groups and the inter...
Testing alternative forms of social practive in a video game
Spring Alpha is a networked game system based on Chad McCail's drawing "Spring". This narrates the attempts of a small, urban community to create its own "utopian" society. The narrative is used as a metaphor for the real-world issues that the project explores and a focus around which speculative a...
Blogging and authorship
In The Role of the Author in Topical Blogs (Proceedings of CHI 2005. Extended abstracts. Pages: 1256 - 1259), Scott Carter presents a compelling study about blogs and the role of authors in this context. He puts the emphasis on how blogs challenge the notion of authorship. Seemingly, rather than a ...
Evaluation of 3 Ubicomp systems
Prototypes in the Wild: Lessons from Three Ubicomp Systems by Scott Carter and Jennifer Mankoff, in IEEE Pervasive Computing Journal, October-December 2005 (Vol. 4, No. 4) pp. 51-57. This paper is an account of three ubicomp systems evaluation at multiple design stages: PALplates: to support offi...
Naive extrapolation
Yesterday, the Financial Times had a smart article about what the author called "naive extrapolation", i.e. "fastening on some current trend, projecting it forward, to exaggerated extent and with exaggerated pace". The result of naive extrapolation is overestimation of the pace of short-run change ...
Mash-up of IM/RSS and publishing services
I am happy to see that I am not the only one thinking about how IM could be a good interface for information management (search, database query), as I described last year.John Battelle wrote a clever post about it, connecting this to mobile interfaces: first of all, a mashup of RSS and IM is just a...
Enlarging Private Space
"Prolongement d'espace privé" (i.e. Enlarging Private Space) is a short manual by french artist Cédric Bernadotte that aims at showing how using duct tape can help you reclaiming part of s atreet and turn it into a private space: There are also other manuals to create benches/seats or hamacs out of...
Video Games Trends
Game Girl Advance has an insightful post about 5 trends in the world of video games that I fully agree with: Sex and games are coming into their own. (...) If the critically and financially successful God of War is a sign of anything, sex will soon become an effective part of storytelling in main...
Combating the Online Dissemination of Illegal Images
CODII: Combating the Online Dissemination of Illegal Images is a project developed by Microsoft Research. It's aimed at examining how people organise themselves online to disseminate illegal images. The underlying issue is to design tools that help hotlines and moderators identify and remove illega...