Via fredhouse, another neologism: placecasting: 'placecasting': networked publishing of digital media (esp. audio) that is logically associated with a physical location, to be experienced by suitably equipped people in that location. fredhouse gives the example of the work did at Mobile Bristol (fo...
Blooks = book based on a blog
Just got this email (I thought it was a spam) about an intriguing new concept, connected to the blooker prize event (a contest that to honor blooks, a new, hybrid literary form and the world's fastest-growing kind of book.): (blook n. blook. A printed and bound book, based on a blog (cf. web log) ...
Digital culture and mainstream innovation
A very relevant article in the last issue of IEEE Multimedia is entitled "Digital Culture, Art, and Technology" by Andreas Broeckmann, the Transmediale art director. Very close to regine's point (as she presented in various places like reboot) which was "Why executives should go to media art festiv...
Defensive space / dispositif spatial légitime
A very interesting article in french about defensive space: Nuisible ? (by Jean Rivière and Olivier Thomas). The starting point of the article is this impressive device, meant to prevent people from seating on a shop window: The concept of defensive space is used to describe an area that has been ...
WiFi/Bluetooth and the toy industry
Interesting report (one of the drawback is that it's 2 years old) about the integration of WiFi and Bluetooth in the toy industry. I think it's a relevant issue since toys are more and more interactive. There are many ways in which children can interact with toys beyond the tradition touch oriented...
Games, technical limits and users' acceptation
Next week, there will be the NetGame conference/4th workshop on Network System Support for Games at the TJ Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY. It's going to be more technical than user-centered. However, one of the track stroke me as interesting because it can have relevant impacts on how user...
Computer Supported Collaborative Work course at EPFL (2005-2006)
I am currently working on the web platform for the course we gave (with Pierre) about Computer Supported Collaborative Work. The syllabus as well as the project step are described here. There is a guest account to visit the website, you just have to click on the guest access. The goal of this cours...
Another rabbit-like technology: Lapinou
Via akihabaranews, a new interesting rabbit-like technology made by Hitachi (presented at the CEATEC event in Tokyo): "Lapinou, the robot rabbit! Hitachi presentes this small robot rabbit that can be connected a variety of PC products and home A/V equipment, and that can interact with human beings....
A context-awareness framework
Today at the lab seminar, we had a presentation from Andreas Zimmermann (Fraunhofer Institute of Sankt Augustin, Germany). Andreas presented the architecture of his 'context management' framework: Context Management Framework De-contextualization is death for any information. Context-awareness is t...
Laptops in wooden logs
The Owl Project (Simon Blackmore, Antony Hall)is a band from Manchester who plays laptops in wooden logs at Emergence, a french arty event: They developed the log1k, a wooded laptop described as: "' The all-new Log1k® is here. And it's unlike anything you've seen or experienced. With a brilliant ...