Thanks Fab for pointing me on this NYT article: Loosing Google's lock on the past. It's about the huge fingerprint people leave on the web: everything can be found on google: Marissa Mayer, director of consumer Web products for Google, said that people call and e-mail the company regularly to reque...
Ubiquitous Computing Paradigms and Scenarios
At the IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments, there will be a relevant session about Ubiquitous Computing Paradigms and Scenarios (June, 28-29th 2005)): This session aims to provide a forum for presenting case studies of Ubiquitous Computing paradigms and scenarios. We invite paper...
A Web interface that can be used to create an MMORPG
A good step towards easier video-game authoring tool: phpMMORPG: phpMMORPG is a Web interface that can be used to create an MMORPG with a back-end which permits users of the interface to create their own games. It features real-time chat, a map editor, a template system, a quest box, PVP, PVE, a lo...
slide scroller
(via chris), the slide scroller by Daniel Fallman is an interesting device fo iPAQs: the physical design had some initial requirements. first, it needed to be a casing to host various circuitry and batteries. second, it needed to be shaped in such a way that when lying on for instance a table, the ...
Review of usability evaluation techniques
Ivory M., Hearst M. (2001) The State of the Art in Automating Usability Evaluation of User Interfaces. ,ACM Computing Services Vol 33(4), pp.470-516 Usability evaluation is an increasingly important part of the user interface design process. However, usability evaluation can be expensive in terms ...
The Zombie effect: people staring silently into their computers in WiFi Café
After reading anne's post about the fact that a local Seattle coffeehouse has shut down its free wi-fi on Saturdays and Sundays because "it seems that nobody talks to each other any more", I stumbled across another paper in the Financial Times about it: Wake up and smell the coffee, wi-fi users By ...
Trazes: your path on Plazes
Plazes has a new interesting feature: it displays your Plazes history on a world map. Trazes allows you to track your historical whereabouts and display the Trazes you left on the globe on a flash based map (thanks, bryan boyer aka IndyJunior). All you need to do is activate "Trazes" in your profil...
Therapeutic Interactive Yoga System
Responses in Light, Sound and Scent — A Therapeutic Interactive Yoga System by S. Fels, J. Gauthier and P. Smith. an interactive system that uses gesture recognition to enhance the yoga experience through visual, auditory and olfactory feedback. Ancient theories associated with Kundalini yoga provi...
Location matters in collaborative problem solving
Random notes about my research project: I like this this "location matters" motto. The point is that even though IT modified how people carry out social activities by removing the notion of distance, space and location are still important features in terms of collaborative problem solving. "Locatio...
DVD controller for kids
A DVD remote control for pre-schooler, made by french toy manufacturer Berchet (which has recently been bought by his neighbor Smoby) DVD Kids Remote Control is created specifically for children to play with their favourite TV characters. DVD Kids aims to make interactivity easier for young childr...