I am currently working on a report about how people infer others' intents/beliefs/knowledge... related to their joint activities. This is related to theories of coordination and how people make assumptions about others'. For that matter, I am going to deal with 3 theories (1 and 2 are from pragmati...
A huge inflatable ball
Zorb seems to be a cool thing: You can roll in it, run in it, ride in it, sit in it, slip in it, slide in it, lie in it, lounge in it, leap in it, live in it, swim in it, sin in it ... Jump in it, jam in it, move in it, groove in it, laugh in it, love in it. You can rotate, meditate, agitate, mutat...
Micro-compact home
(via), the micro-compact home is a concept I find quite nice: The micro compact home [m-ch] is a lightweight, modular and mobile minimal dwelling for one or two people. Its compact dimensions of 2.6m cube adapt it to a variety of sites and circumstances, and its functioning spaces of sleeping, work...
Duct-tape activities
People like me interested in doing weird things with duct tape might have a glance at what the Duck Tape Club does: Duck Tape Book Mark, Duck Tape Bracelet, Duck Tape Cell Phone Case, Duck Tape Flip Flops, Duck Tape Folder, Duck Tape Pencil Holder, Duck Tape Pop Can Holder, Duck Tape Rose Pen, Duck...
French location-based games: Navia
I just discovered that there is a french company that develops location-based games. It's called Recreator. The games are called navia and it seems that it's rather about using GPS and maps to play various games (tic-tac-toe, treasure hunt, conquest of virtual properties, tracking people or finding...
Using a photocopier to generate fractals
People interested in weird visuals/sounds should have a glance at what Noah T. Vawter does. First his interests are strikingly interesting: I like strawberries, ocean waves, ballroom and Latin dancing, suspenseful movies, photocopied collages, projecting trippy programs on walls, creeping around i...
Mobile phones for kids
Firefly: with just 5 keys: Tictalk (by Leapfrog and Enfora): parents can control Parents control the phone numbers online at mytictalk.com: MyScene Mobile phone (Mattel): ChatNow: The ChatNow two-way radio communicator is the new personal communicator that allow kids to ‘call’ or ‘text’ their f...
"The network is the church"
"The network is the church" is the motto of the Next Scribe, an organization in New Mexico that conducts the research and development to assess and develop the long term potential of ubiquitous personal digital networks to enrich human relationships and spiritual community. The aim is to develop th...
A Palm Pilot made out of Butter
(found here) ...
Evaluating the Deployment of a Location-Enhanced Messaging Service
An article that is going to be presented at Ubicomp that sounds interesting:Control, Deception, and Communication: Evaluating the Deployment of a Location-Enhanced Messaging Service by G. Iachello, I. Smith, S. Consolvo, G. D. Abowd, J. Hughes, J. Howard, F. Potter, J. Scott, T. Sohn, J. Hightower,...