Technology Review has released a scorecard about R&D indexes. Interesting to see the big players. In addition, there is an article about this. The 2005 edition of the TR R&D Scorecard shows that worldwide corporate spending is picking up, but that the gains are unevenly distributed. The biggest adv...
Playware: playground for tangible interactions
Playware is a cool project about tangible interactions for kids. It's carried out by Henrik Hautop Lund and Carsten Jessen (Maersk Institute, University of Southern Denmark and The Danish University of Education). The point of their project is to engage kids in physical activities instead of lettin...
Crime mapping + place-based annotations?
When police changes its way of using geographical data to do crime mapping: Effective crime mapping by Mark Patrick (ESRI, UK) Intranet access to force-wide mapping and analysis is one way to provide information for the range of decision making processes that exist is modern policing.Providing mapp...
A social network analysis fo the CSCW community
Examinations of research communities is something I like to have a glance at, especially when it comes to my field of research. I ran across this relevant paper: Six degrees of Jonathan Grudin: A social network analysis of the evolution and impact of CSCW research by Daniel B. Horn, Thomas A. Finho...
Digital Ethnography Workgroup
A good project and resources about digital ethnography can be found here. It's called DEW (Digital Ethnography Workgroup). and it's led by Edwin Hutchins (mister 'distributed cognition')DEW is a community of professors, graduate students, and undergraduate students in the department of Cognitive Sc...
On-ship Offshoring job
Some folks seem to have taken the 'offshoring' concept to the letter: SeaCode: using an old ship in the international water, 3 miles off the US coast to put lots of software developers in it to have a 24/7 programming factory. Here is the crazy description of what they aim at: SeaCode presents Hybr...
Bee-Dogs repository
(via), it's totally cheesy but I have to admit that I like this kind of stuff (it's even better than the 'turn your doberman into a poodle' outfit): Bee-Dogs which is described as "the premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes". Here is the 'elevator pitch': I [Gina Zycher] st...
Ubiquitous Computing, Entertainment and Games workshop
For morons like me who could not make it to Ubicomp 2005 and Julian's workshop about 'Ubiquitous Computing, Entertainment and Games', the solution is to have a look at the participants' presentations, which really worth it: "The hunt for Mr. X: Bringing a board game to the street" Niklaus Moor (S...
3rd international workshop on mobile music technology
People into mobile music technology should submit something to the 3rd international workshop on mobile music technology (2-3 MARCH 2006, BRIGHTON, UK). Judging from the material extracted in the two previous workshops, it might be interesting! Following two successful workshops that started to exp...
Social Networks as Health Feedback Displays
A relevant application using the social network concept is described in this article in the IEEE Pervasive Computing Journal:Social Networks as Health Feedback Displays by Margaret E. Morris from Intel (September/October 2005 (Vol. 9, No. 5) pp. 29-37): Social networks have thus far served primaril...