Everybody into arty/design stuff should add regine's new blog called no garlic please (of course I won't obey to this kind of statement since garlic make a good mix with pasta and vinegar). This also makes me reflect about her comment "i wouldn't like wmmna to loose its essence so i've just launche...
Physical manipulation of a cellular automata
J dash B just sent me the link about what Nwanua Elumeze do: craft items as digital manipulatives. For instance the Smart Tiles project seems to be great: Smart Tiles are tiny, programmable pieces that can be assembled into an array to create complex and beautiful dynamical patterns. They are also ...
Sew, knit, and crochet conductive fibers
Leah Buechley (a colleague of Enwanua) seems to be doing marvellous stuff with jean fabric/embroidered wires to introduce young girls to circuit theory as they sew, knit, and crochet conductive fibers, LEDs, switches and resistors unto denim and other fabrics. I liek this idea very much! We recent...
Remarks and notes after my paper presentation
Yesterday I presented the results of the CatchBob! experiment at the french HCI conference. Afterwards I had a relevant discussion with Pascal Salembier about it. His main remarks/questions were: Apart from the low reliability (+ high subjectivity) of the NASA-TLX method (evaluation of task load)...
Stuffed animals that look like microbes
(via) Giant Microbes is a company that make stuffed animals that look like tiny microbes: Now available: The Common Cold, The Flu, Sore Throat, Stomach Ache, Cough, Ear Ache, Bad Breath, Kissing Disease, Athlete's Foot, Ulcer, Martian Life, Beer & Bread, Black Death, Ebola, Flesh Eating, Sleeping S...
Massively multiplayer online games a testbed for entrepreneurial skills
Via the ACM technews review: "The Avatars of Research" in Chronicle of Higher Education (09/30/05) Vol. 52, No. 6, P. A35; Foster, Andrea L. Massively multiplayer online games such as Second Life have aroused the interest of scholars as a testbed for entrepreneurial skills as well as a tool for stu...
Want to build your own fullsize, working Johnny Five?
Dunno whether you remember who is Johnny Five but here is an good topic: >Want to build your own fullsize, working Johnny Five? : Would you like to own a radio-controlled Johnny Five like those seen in Short Circuit 2? Want to build your own fullsize, working Johnny Five? If you answered "yes" to e...
Human Robots Interaction
It's been a while I was wondering about the emerging field of human-robots interaction. It seems that not it exists as attested by this conference: HRI 2006: The theme of HRI 06, Toward Human-Robot Collaboration, highlights the importance of creating robot capabilities and interfaces that address h...
S.O.U.P: a visual and acoustic representation of the wireless communication network
Locative media artist Alejo Duque and his colleague Lorenz Schori are working in a very cool project in Luzern, Switzerland, it's called SOUP: the Shapes Of [Un]warped Packages: S.O.U.P provides a visual and acoustic representation of the omnipresent wireless communication networks which surrounds ...
Off to conference
I'm heading to Toulouse, France for the french conference of human computer interaction called IHM 2005. I hope I will visit the Airbus facilities up there! ...