Quick too for nerds: OPML editor (Mac, Win), developed by Dave Winer: The core purpose of this program is to create outlines and share them with other people, in various forms. 1. Choose the New command from the File menu. This creates a new outline window. 2. Type: Now is the time for all good men...
Platial: annotations of space
platial: platial is a rapidly developing application and community pivoting on the anchors of user annotation, layerability, collaborative mapping, social networking and real world publishing. I can't really figure out what it is from the website but it seems to be an on-going locative media proje...
Hypersonic sound: a way to get inside people's head
Woody Norris has a way of getting inside your head... is an article in Popsci about a crazy technology: Unlike traditional speakers, which scatter sound, Norris' device streams it in a precise, laser-like beam for up to 150 yards with almost no degradation in quality or volume. (...) How does it wo...
Paper about space/place published
My review about how space structures socio-cognitive interactionas has been published in the last issue of on.line journal Psychnology in the Special Issue on Space, Place & Technology (part b): A Review of How Space Affords Socio-Cognitive Processes during Collaboration This paper reviews the lite...
Mapping Burning Man
igargoyle provides us with very intriguing maps of Burning Man There are other things did by other persons. I am pretty sure there will be plenty of map hacker that are going to do great things. Technorati Tags: map, burning man ...
Location awareness information representation
LAIR: Location awareness information representation by Kottahachchi, Laddaga and Look, WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, Volume 2, Issue 8, August 2005, Pages 1144-1149 . Current location representations model only the geographical aspects of a place. While this is a neces...
Football analysis with pervasive technologies
I already mentioned that issue of IEE Pervasive Computing journal about sports. I just read the on about football: Computerized Real-Time Analysis of Football Games by Michael Beetz, Bernhard Kirchlechner and Martin Lames IEEE Pervasive Computing, pp. 33-39. The authors present Football Interaction...
Coordination devices/keys
I am currently reviewing papers for a literature review about Mutual Modeling (i.e. process by which people infer the partners' intents, goals, understanding of the situation when involved in a collaborative activity). Here is a review of what Herbert Clark calls 'coordination devices' or 'coordina...
Maywadenki's project: Compare oneself to a fish
I am crazy of MaywaDenki's projects. Maywadenki is an art unit produced by Nobumichi Tosa. It was named after the company that his father used to run bygone days. One of his very intriguing creation is NAKI: Maywa Denki’s products started with NAKI Series in 1990 when Nobumichi Tosa came across t...
Multitasking, collaboration and distance
An interesting result: Susan Fussell, Sara Kiesler, Suzanne Weisband, Peter Scupelli, and Leslie Setlock are conducting laboratory studies of the effects of distance on managing multiple projects. They have discovered that when people are engaged in two separate tasks with separate partners, they w...