(via), an intriguing study from an article released in Journal of Neuroscience, 1999: Dr. Stanley is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He is the ultimate voyeur. He jacks into brains and extracts video. Using cat...
See virtual and public dimensions through your mobile phone
(via), a new locative media project called Rixome, "is a network and a tool that turns mobile screens into windows that show the virtual and public dimensions of our point of view": Words and phrases crossing rooms and streets. Gestures and drawings entangled between the virtual and the material in...
When attention is deployed to one modality, it extracts a cost on another modality, neuroscience study says
(via this good blog from a group in Lausanne), Multitasking: You can't pay full attention to both sights and sounds by Lisa De Nike. It's actually a lab study which suggests that reason cell phones and driving don't mix "Our research helps explain why talking on a cell phone can impair driving perf...
Citizen journalism
I am not so used to know what happen in the field, but it's however interesting. Østfold University College in Norway conducted a research experiment in which people used standard mobile phones (such as the Nokia 6630) to provide coverage of the historical opening of a new main bridge between Swede...
"Fourth places" concept
One of the good point of workshop and their informal discussion is that blurry and odd concepts emerges. That's what happened in a discussion with Fabien (software designer), Jeffrey (architecture professor), Scott (interactive display designer) and I (HCI researcher) with the very idea of bathroom...
Venting machines instead of vending machines
I just wanted to share the "stuff" we designed with my working group at the CAIF workshop. Along with regine, chris, sara, fabien, peggy and kevin we did a pretty good job. The evaluation of the project was conducted through a sonometer that evaluated the noise level due to people knocking on the t...
User-Robots interactions
I had an interesting discussion by Frederic Kaplan (Sony CSL Paris) at the workshop, while hiking in the swiss mountains. Frederic is one of the researcher who tries to make Aibo more curious (as I mentioned earlier) My concern with robots is that it seems that there is a conspicuous lack on robot-...
Toilet Paper Vending Machine
WOW....... a toilet paper vending machine, located ion the streets in case of...., found here: This machine at a Tokyo subway station toilet will cost you 100 yen (about 80 cents US) for a small package of toilet paper. ...
Personal Digital Libraries
Great paper in D-Lib about personal digital libraries by Neil Beagrie. People are capturing and storing an ever-increasing amount of digital information about or for themselves, including emails, documents, articles, portfolios of work, digital images, and audio and video recordings. Computer proce...
"Walkiebits" small turtle robots
(via), "Walkiebits" small turtle robots: new robots from Takara Toys, called "Walkiebits." They're shaped like little turtles, and while they don't offer a whole lot of robotic functionality, they will remember rythms tapped out o n their shells and walk to that rhythm. They can also run, play melo...