I do like this drawing made by Sylvain Euriot (for the graphic collective 'Kung Fu). It's taken from their special issue about "in the future". The caption says "still no flying cars": I really think it's a nice metaphor for futurism: 50 years ago we were expectin huge, visible and disruptive chang...
Augmented Reality Game Design
Some lessons and insights about Augmented Reality/Pervasive games are described in this document by Bruce Thomas, Wayne Piekarski, Benjamin Avery and Joe Velikosvky. It's actually an overview with some results that concerns AR Quake, 3 Moon Lander and 3D Sky Invaders. What is interesting is that th...
A non-user centered Internet of Things
Today I perused the ITU report about "The Internet of Things" more seriously. The whole report is a compilation of fact, figures and technologies to support the idea of an ubiquitous computation platform refered to as the "Internet of Things" (some trendy person will soon call it "Das Internet des ...
Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methodologies
Lately I've been very interested in having a global framework that will combine both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The following paper is interesting for that matter:On Becoming a Pragmatic Researcher: The Importance of Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methodologies by ...
Toaster prints weather forecast on bread
I am sure this will be blogged and reblogged everywhere but I like this concept: using bread as a display device , for instance to show weather forecast (seen in The Register): Robin Southgate's Java toaster, a device he assembled as part of his final year design project at Brunel University in Eng...
Telegotchi
Another cool project developed at the Georgia Tech Mobile Technologies Group: Telegotchi Telegotchi is an electronic pet based game for your mobile device. However, unlike tradition e-pet games, the emotional state of your pet is linked to the physiological state of other players. There are two typ...
Web of Science, Scopus and Google scholar
Quick pointer: As we may search – Comparison of major features of the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar citation-based and citation-enhanced databases by Peter Jacso in the last issue of Current Issue Vol. 89 No. 10 (November 2005) is a great article about science databases. It compares W...
The culture of SMS lives among younger women users
Richard Ling's latest paper is very pertinent with regard to sociocultural aspects of SMS usage: The socio-linguistics of SMS: An analysis of SMS use by a random sample of Norwegians by Richard Ling: a corpus of SMS messages gathered from a random sample of 2003 Norwegians. The data was collected i...
The Apple iWipe
Some crazy folk created this iWipe thing: a toilet paper roll in a Macintosh SE case. ...
Playing Pong on Cell-Phones
Gesture-based games using camera phones is a project carried out by the Georgia Tech Mobile Lab We have developed a collection of mobile phone games that incorporate physical gesture interactions. Users interact with the game by physically moving the phone in free space. For example, in Pong, a use...