Mobile games and psychology

This talk proposed at ETech 2006 seems to be very appealing to my interest: Putting the Fun in Functional: Applying Game Design to Mobile Services by Amy Jo Kim: obile games are becoming a big business. But on the horizon, there's an even more exciting opportunity to develop compelling mobile servi...

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PhD position at the lab

We're looking for a PhD student at our lab: PROJECT Group mirrors provide users with a reflection of their collaborative processes. The noise sensitive table is an example of interactive furniture based on the concept of group mirror (http://craftsrv1.epfl.ch/research/interactivetable/). Its matrix...

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TagType, a curious joypad-keyboard

Sylvain just sent me this intriguing joypad-keyboard for kids: it's called TagType It's actually a mixture of a keyboard and a joypad, made of 16 buttons (10 for the hiragana), it works on PCs. Picture via http://www.akihabaranews.com/. ...

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About cell phones' future

In the last issue of Receiver, there is an insightful article by James Katz (Professor of Communication and founder of the Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Rutgers University) about cell phones and the changes telephony encounters. When giving his take about cell phones' future, he highli...

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Paper about user's expectations when using LBS

Lately I am more and more returning to my earlier reading about location-awareness from 2 years back, maybe it's because I am writing journal papers and I need some connections with my work. This morning I re-read this paper from Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing: User needs for location...

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Smash my XBox

An intriguing performance organized by smash my xbox: After we collect $430 in donations, we will take that money to a local unspecified retailer, which opens at 12am on the launch date. We will purchase the Xbox 360, and destroy it in front of the other Xbox fanboys who are already waiting in line...

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Yahoo Answers

Rather than being impressed by the Yahoo take-over of del.icio.us, I am more interested in the launch of Yahoo Answers (of course the del.icio.us thing is great and the synergies with flickr are interesting but some other things are going on). This service lets you ask a question and have a real pe...

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gameboy + pedal effects = rock gameboy

6955 is a great gameboy-hacker who is using a gameboy to do music. Of course it's very common lately but I like the way he does it: he combines gameboy with pedal effects which is amazing: I started this project as a street–side busking thing in Toronto back in ’98. 99.9% of street musicians are ir...

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Pervasive computing on the road

Pervasive computing for road trips is a project by Marc Böhlen, Jesse Fabian, Dirk Pfeifer, and JT Rinker from The MediaRobotics Lab, University at Buffalo In this project, setudents had to design applications using sensors (temperature sensors, 2D accelerometers, miniature color cameras, an OBD-I...

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