Superstars of the Mobile Internet: Top 10 Mobile Multimedia Nations identifies the leading nations in terms of mobile multimedia usage. The report illustrates the types of indicators used to measure mobile multimedia penetration and identifies the 10 leading mobile multimedia nations in the world. ...
Tacticle graphics conference
Via the excellent doors of perception, I ran across this interesting conference: Tactile Graphics Tactile Graphics is an international conference on diagrams, maps and pictures which are touched rather than looked at. Topics for discussion include spatial cognition and tactile perception, tactile s...
VisaVis
Already blogged everywhere VisAVis games is a good way to move forward from the actual video game paradigm to new interfaces. It's carried out by Julian Bleecker and game designer Peter Brinson. Vis-a-Vis represents a research vector along an old familiar trajectory of location-based designs, but a...
A touchscreen made out of an elastic-like fabric
P&V reader Adam Montandon (from HMC MediaLab) finished an interesting digital art project called "Hyperfabric" Hyperfabric. It's basically a very touchable touchscreen, made out of an elastic-like fabric, so the screen warps like rubber, and can sense how hard your press it, where you press it, and...
Found in San Diego
absolutely irrelevant but... ...
Innovation and sex
Yes, porn/sex stuff are a driving force with regard to innovation/technologies. There is a recent article about this in New Scientist entitled "Why we all need pornography" by Annalee Newitz. Porn fans are the driving force behind technologies that we might one day all rely on to protect our identi...
Computers in Entertainment new issue
The last issue of ACM's Computers in Entertainment is finally released (a july issue released in august :) ). It has a very insightful section about pervasive gaming. Here are authors and titles: Â Â Â Â Pervasive games: bringing computer entertainment back to the real world by Carsten Magerkurth...
Cognition & Learning in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
!Holiday post! (via), Constance Steinkuehler has published her phd dissertation entitled Cognition & Learning in Massively Multiplayer Online Games: A Critical Approach. I just skimmed through the document bu I am looking forward to read it more carefully. Here is how she describes her research: My...
Current state of P&V
On my way to San Diego... ...
Pasta and Vinegar Summer Break
Yes it's time for a break, I'll be out of the office during 3 weeks and a half, in the US, on the West coast mostly. However I will certainly blog some spread posts during the HCI International conference or on certain occasion. ...