In the LIFT conference , aside talks and keynote presentation, we are organizing a specific moment devoted for projects presentation. The format will be simple: presenters will have 15minutes to describe the project (there will be 4 projects = 1 hour). After this quick review, there is going to be ...
Seamful design for location-based phone games
Seamful Design for Location-Based Mobile Games by Gregor Broll and Steve Benford. The article is about revealing and exploiting inevitable technical limitations in Ubiquitous Computing technology rather than hiding them. Relying ont their experiment about the game called 'Bill' (see here to get mor...
The dark side of Pervasive Computing: environmental issues
It's refreshing to see that some scholars are working on the dark side of technology, especially when it's related to pervasive computing which is one of the 'research object' we adress here:Expected Environmental Impacts of Pervasive Computing by Andreas Köhler, Lorenz Erdmann: Pervasive Comput...
An house made of dust
Non-cheese eater regine recently sent me this fabulous dust house (by Maria Adelaida Lopez). She surely knows my interest towards art project related to dust, dirt (apart duct tapes and inflatable things). When Colombian Maria Adelaida Lopez moved to Philadelphia do a Master’s degree in art, she cl...
The 'imitation bias' in media design
Today, at the CSCW course, we had a good discussion about the 'imitation bias', a phenomenon studies in Human-Computer Interaction. The imitation bias is the false belief that a medium is more effective if it is more similar to face-to-face interactions. For instance, it's believing that adding vid...
GPS devices usability
Via Usability News, Usability of GPS Receivers in a Sporting Environment by Rodney Sloan and Jacques Hugo(Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria): In spite of the growing popularity of GPS, there are many usability issues to be addressed. (...) We looked at learnability and disco...
Bidirectional RSS: Simple Sharing Extensions
Ray Osszie (Lotus Notes creator and Groove founder) introduces a new standard called SSE (Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML) meant to support sharing and 'cross-subscribed' feeds. It's actually a RSS extension. What's interesting is that the SSE specification is released under a Creative C...
Thinglink: connection information and artifacts
An intriguing post by Ulla Maaria-Mutanen about thinglink, a concept I was not aware of: A thinglink is a free unique identifier that anybody can use for making the finding and recommendation of particular things easier in the Internet. A thinglink identifier is based on the idea that many of the t...
Fender-Intel Guitar to surf on information superhighways
According to the very tech-related journal "The Sun", Intel and Fender are working on an internet guitar: A NEW guitar allows rockers to surf the internet and send emails while blasting out riffs. Technology built into the Fender instrument allows musicians to download chords from the net to play i...
DIY Bluetooth Glove
Farting around the web, looking for bluetooth clothes and gear, I ran across what this Jason Bradbury guy did. He seems to be one these cool DIY hackers who designer intriguing things. His bluetooth glove is pretty neat: Made from a reconstituted Bluetooth headset and a gentleman's driving glove (w...