The following paper seems to be one the first paper in the field of (live actions) role-playing games and technology to support it: How to Host a Pervasive Game Supporting Face-to-Face Interactions in Live-Action Roleplaying by Jay Schneider, Gerd Kortuem (Ubicomp 2001). The paper describes an ubiq...
Lyon Calling Tour
Three of my favorite reggae/dub/ragga/cross-over french bands (Le Peuple de l'Herbe, High Tone, Mei Tei Sho) are currently touring in Europe, and they have a weblog which gives some account about their sets. Available here (or here). Entitled LYON CALLING TOUR, in reference to the Clash, one of the...
Map morphing project
Map Morphing seems to be a relevant project carried out at the EDGE Lab (Dalhousie) by D. Reilly and K.M. Inkpen : Map Morphing is an interactive morph between two maps covering approximately the same region. Using both blending and distortion, the maps appear to merge into one another. This allows...
Skatestoppers
(via), an impressive list of skatestoppers. This is related to the concept of 'defensible space': "the term used to describe an area that has been made a "Zone of Defence" by the design characteristics that create it" (according to neighbourhoodwatch). Creating a defensible space allow urban design...
Translating Research Insights into Innovation
After perusing , I was wondering about the last part of the document: Translating Insight into Innovation . Basically, the document presents how Intel use ethnographic research to drive technology innovation. Of course, the emphasis is more on the field studies and 2 applications that emerges from ...
USB-controlled car?
Funny way to control your car: Mazda's new concept hatchback, Sassou, ditches the traditional cylinder lock key system in favor of USB flash drives as explained here: On the inside is a high-tech, interactive interior concept reflecting the lifestyle of young people. It uses a USB stick as a key an...
A interesting concept: pedestrian face-off
After spending hours reading books and papers about coordination theory it's funny to run across this concept in the always relevant urban dictionnary: pedestrian face-off: an awkward situation in which two pedestrians, who are on a collision course with each other, are repeatedly unsuccessful in a...
Communications of the ACM on RFID
The last issue of Communications of the ACM is a special issue about RFID tags. Here is a summar by editor Gaetano Borriello about the contribution: Joshua R. Smith et al. describe an approach to integrating basic movement-sensing with tags and how they might be used to infer human activity, specif...
The waiting machine
(via) Impressive! Waiting Machine by Chris Eckert: ...
Cannes Reloaded
Cannes Reloaded is a workshop project carried out by WJ Mitchell's students at MIT in 2003. CANNES today functions mostly as a tourist, festival, and retirement destination. But it has the potential to play a new, far more dynamic role. Its climate and lifestyle attractions, its connections to the ...