Spengler: Don’t cross the streams.Venkman: Why? Spengler: It would be bad. Venkman: I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean “bad”? Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. Stantz: Total...
Roadmap for current european project (summertime)
Roadmap for the MutualModeling project: State of the art document for end of september: literature review / paradigm / methodology to grasp Mutual Modeling / main results / perspectives with regard to our project. I have to take care of “shared cognitive environment" (Sperber and Wilson), “groundi...
A book you can literally walk into
Walk-In Comix by Maribeth Back, Dale MacDonald, Mark Meadows, Scott Minneman, Beatrice Gallay, A. Balsamo, and Maureen Stone (the reading lab): a graphic novel you can literally walk into -- it's printed on the walls, floor, and ceiling of a small set of labyrinthine rooms we built at the Tech. Ta...
Music Insects Performance
Music Insects by Toshio Iwai (1992). Permanent collection at the Exploratorium, San Francisco, U.S.A. These "music insects" "react" to color dots on the screen. When they pass over them such dots, they trigger musical scales, sounds, and different light patterns. The user selects colors from a pale...
NOKIA's Digidress
A 2002-2003 project at Nokia: Digidress by Per Persson, Younghee Jung, Jan Blom, Ionific. It's actually one of those matchmaking system that allows colocated people to be aware of relevant partners presence in the vicinity. Mobile phones have traditionally been used to connect remote people. With ...
Conference paper about Catchbob! / Article de conférence sur CatchBob!
I wrote a paper for the french Human Computer Interaction Conference that has been accepted. Empirical Study of Geolocation Use in Mobile Collaboration by Nicolas Nova, Fabien Girardin and Pierre Dillenbourg This paper describes a collaborative location based application in built-in environment. Th...
Video-Game interface to read books
A smart project at the Reading Lab : Speeder Reader by Maribeth Back, Jonathan Cohen, Rich Gold used a video-game driving interface with dynamic text. It couples the notion of dynamic typography with the notion of the car as interface. Speeder Reader gives you a gas pedal to control your rate of sp...
For cool hunting, go out!
In a short interview of Josh Rubin (the guy who does cool hunting), there is this interesting excerpt: Q. What tip(s) would you give a brand/marketing manager to help them become more aware of consumer/cultural trends in their day to day worklife? JR. Get up from the desk, go outside and walk the s...
Scientists create zombie dogs
(via), scientists have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans. Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and...
How to discourage drivers from speeding
At the HCI Lab (Stanford University), there is currently a research project about to discourage drivers from speeding. They put online the results of their brainstorm in the form of drawings which are amazingly interesting: If you want to know more about it, read: Dynamic Speedometer: Dashboard Re...