It might be a good talk (at the Future Design Days): "Play and the Everyday – Developing technology interventions to activate community spaces and public life" by Margot Jacobs. Whether one lives in the city, its suburbs or a small town, the changes affecting everyday environments and their public ...
Awful baby carrier
(via A Welsh View), an atrocious and harmful baby carrier (featured here): I am speechless ...
Free and open source tool to analyse video/audio data
I'm currently testing Transana, a free and open-source software for qualitative analysis, developed at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. Transana is software for professional researchers who want to analyze digital video or audio data. Transana lets you analyze and manage your data in v...
P&V status
I currently feel like this: ...
An account of location-based games multiple play
A good read: Barkhuus, L., Chalmers, M., Tennent, P., Hall, M., Bell, M. and Brown, B. Picking Pockets on the Lawn: The Development of Tactics and Strategies in a Mobile Game. Proceedings of UbiComp 2005, Tokyo, Japan. The paper tackles the issue of how the experience of multiple games changed they...
Applications of ontologies in the field of pervasive computing
"Smart Artifacts as a Key Component of Pervasive Games" by Michal Roj (workshop paper for the Workshop on Gaming Applications in Pervasive Computing Environments 2004). In this paper we present how smart artifacts can become a crucial element in pervasive games. In our vision, ‘magical’ artifacts p...
Mologogo: a free application for GPS enabled cell phones
Mologogo is a new and free application meant to track stuff/persons (alpha service): "Mod a GPS enabled Nextel and fauxjack yourself or your car, or your kid, or a big dog, or an elephant. We really, really want to track an elephant. Mologogo is a free service that will track a "friends" GPS ena...
'Table de synchronisation'
(via) At the Paris FIAC 2005 there is this intriguing and somehow fascinatin table called 'Table de synchronisation', a project by Suchan Kinoshita (more about the project on his galery's website): Suchan Kinoshita who grew up in Japan emigrated to Cologne at the age of twenty in order to pursue ...
Mobile Gaming Forecast
Gamasutra featured a very relevant piece about the future of mobile gaming. It's actually a compilation of viewpoints made by Quang Hong. Here area few selection impressions I found relevant about the very questions "What interests you most about the prospects for cell phone gaming, and what innova...
Rooftop tennis court
I really enjoy Arno Piroud's street artwork. One of is best piece is definitely this tennis court painted on a rooftop in Lyon, France: Photo featured in the great book 'Art de rue' by Kanardo. ...