Rashmi gives a great summary of the IBM annual seminar about user interfaces (called New Directions in User Computing conference). Since this year's focus is mobile computing, I am very interested in what has been said there. Attendants seemed to be recurent people from the field form the human-com...
GeoGeny Positioning Solution
Yesterday, Fab and I had a meeting with CPR group who did this GeoGeny solution. It as in Montreux during the Jazz Festival The GeoGeny interface was conceived by CPR Group (Switzerland) Inc by calling upon different telecommunications technologies (GPS, GSM, GPRS, SMS). (...) Used for the first ti...
Workshops on Mobile Music Technology follow-up
Lalya brought to my attention that the websites of the 1st and 2nd international workshops on Mobile Music Technology have been updated and now contain paper and poster proceedings, power point presentations and pictures from the workshops + soon on-line reports about the two workshops and possibly...
A kit to turn your doberman into a poodle
(via) Careful: Ultra-weird stuff! There is now a kit to turn your angry do into a poodle: Ultra Poodle Disguise Kit for Dobermans™. It's done by attackchi. Here is how it works. First you have to unwrap your kit, let your dog sniff everything. Besides, the faq is hilarious (Is this an anti...
From New York to Coruscant
Last week-end, I read this book: "" (Alain Musset) (!!! book in french !!!) The authors' point is that science fiction novels, as Dickens or Zola's books reflects how society behave at a specific moment in time. He thinks that studying how sci-fi envisions problems related to social/political/or...
Stuff + Cats = Awesome
The Stuff on my cat website has now started. It's a curious blog with pictures of stuff put on cats. ...
Horizontal chat display
Mirweis is wondering about chat display recently. He came out with this idea of horizontal chat display. We had a bit of fun about this and I came out with the following: Useless stuff... ...
Automatic corpus analysis
This morning at EPFL, we had a very interesting talk by Carolyn Rosé (Carnegie Mellon University) about automatic corpus analysis. There is a summary of this work in a paper she wrote for CSCL 2005: Supporting CSCL with Automatic Corpus Analysis Technology: Process analyses are becoming more and mo...
Research on Interactive Table at CRAFT
JB is our new research associate just finished the description of his project related to interactive table. It's all described here. The purpose of the project is to design, build and experiment furniture with embedded technology to support casual collaborative learning. Currently there are 3 desig...
Makrolab Autonomous Lab
This Makrolab seems interesting: Makrolab is an autonomous communications, research and living unit and space, capable of sustaining concentrated work of 4 people in isolation/insulation conditions for up to 120 days. The project started in 1994 and was first realised during an art exhbition, docum...