I am crazy about this project by HeHe (Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen): Train : urban structure for aesthetic urban transportation, a very intriguing and relevant project about transportation: Using existing, past and future railway transportation systems and Reverse Cultural Engineer them. Techn...
Folksomologies and spatial technologies
Just stumbled across a new concept: folksomologies which is obviously a portmanteau word that I found in Technology and geography: some work in progress by Barry Brown and Louise Barkhuus (a paper from an workshop at ECSCW). a number of the same designs or concepts are being replicated time and ti...
Beta version of platial
Finally, there is now a beta version of the platial platform I mentioned few weeks ago. Platial enables anyone to find, create and use meaningful maps of Places that matter to them. We hope it can connect people, neighborhoods, cities and countries through a citizen-driven common context that goes ...
Toy Symphony by Tod Machover
Tod Machover is a researcher at MIT medialab. He has a cool project called Toy Symphony: With Toy Symphony, Tod Machover and his team at the MIT Media Lab strive to bridge the gap between professional musicians and children, as well as between audience and performers. This three year project, combi...
People's representation of Ubiquitous Computing
Now that Ubiquitous Computing is somehow becoming a reality (somehow because applications are still at the prototype level), it's interesting to find a paper about how people's preconception about it: How do users think about ubiquitous computing? by K. Truong, E. Huang, M.M. Stevens and G.D. Abowd...
Yubi-Wa: Wearable handset featuring a bone conduction transceiver
(via yahoo news), this amazing device: A model demonstrates NTT DoCoMo's wearable handset device 'Yubi-Wa' at the CEATEC JAPAN 2005, a technology trade exhibition, in Makuhari, east of Tokyo October 4, 2005. The prototype handset which the company believes is the world's first wearable handset, fea...
Design and analysis of social-interaction research
Mirweis recently pointed me on this paper: THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL-INTERACTION RESEARCH by David A. Kenny taken from the Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 47: 59-86 (Volume publication date February 1996) . Static models of interacting persons measured at the interval level are reviewed. ...
A physical representation of my blog
(seen in geneva, the guy might be a lost reader) ...
Journal paper about Can You See Me Now?
A paper to be published in Transactions of CHI:Can You See Me Now? by Steve Benford, Andy Crabtree, Martin Flintham, Adam Drozd, Rob Anastasi and Mark Paxton + Nick Tandavanitj, Matt Adams and Ju Row-Farr. This article is a very good milestone, it's a journal paper that accounts the experience they...
Best estimation of a node position taking into consideration the economic viability of a wireless sensor
(via), An interesting idea for building effective LBS/positioning services is developed by Jagoba Arias Pérezfrom University of the Basque Country in Bilabo. As described on his webpage: each node has to have very low costs, both in its design and in its production. The most important advantage of ...