A conference in Zürich where I might go on November 9-10th. It's roughly a festival for media culture & digital lifestyle and there are relevant people in the program as mentioned here: Zum Beispiel darüber, wie Science-Fiction-Szenarien plötzlich Wirklichkeit werden: in «the hacker crackdown» des ...
The orange man
After the blue guy I blogged about few days ago, there is another colored-project I ran across recently: the orange man. The point in this case is to eat a metric ton of carrots to be turned into a full sized man orange. ...
Tent for tree-huggers
Via d*lires and travelizmo, this incredible tent meant to be put in trees. The project is called TreeTents Dutch designer Dré Wapenaar created this singular construction in 1998 for British activists so they could sleep among the branches of trees they were trying to save. Made of steel, canvas and...
Input Management in Map-Based Interfaces
Cohen, P. R., McGee, D. R., & Clow, J. (2000, April 29-May 4). The efficiency of multimodal interaction for a map-based task. Paper presented at the Applied Natural Language Processing Conference (ANLP'00), Seattle, WA. This paper compares the efficiency of using a standard direct-manipulation grap...
CatchBob milestone
In CatchBob!, the messages which deals with strategy could discriminated with the following characteristics:- content: Bob's position, Bob's approximate location (area), the proper triangle configuration, advice/order abotu spatial behavior, a meeting point and network problems. - the adressees: A,...
"San Francisco in Jello"
Amanda Williams has a nice post about San Francisco in Jello, a project by Elizabeth Hickok: the fog is definitely real: There is also a cool video of an earthquake. ...
Todo list
Short reminder for ongoing projects: Run new CatchBob experiment with asynchronous awareness tool Sketch the new structured interface to allow players to write predescribed strategy messages Complete paper for COOP2006 Sketch the outline of a potential journal paper about location awareness Write ...
Julian Bleecker on dislocation
Californian cool cat Julian Bleecker wrote a very interesting piece about what he calls dislocation: the "ways in which various forms of (mostly electronic) communications/networking social infrastructures make tectonic, geographical alterations on the landscape". This is meant to appear in a book ...
No remote control for the first VCR
This is the Ampex VRX-1000 (aka the Mark IV), the first videotape recorder. The cedmagic website has a good introduction about it (picture taken from there): Research on recording video on tape was begun in the early 1950's, and Bing Crosby Enterprises demonstrated a prototype system in 1951 that r...
The blue guy
There is currently a very intriguing exhibition in Switzerland entitled ""L'Homme Bleu, le rhinocéros et la solution du monde"" (the blue guy, the rhinoceros and the world's solution). It actually depicts a guy dressed in a blue costume in different contexts (he travelled all around the world). The...