Patrick and his students did a pretty good job to visualize blogposts. They wrote a script that parsed my RDF file, then extracted the most important topics following Wise and colleagues' method. At the end of the road, Patrick used R to compute two visualizations. The first one is a representation...
Interactive seat/Fauteuil interactif
Interactive seat/Fauteuil interactif by Guillaume Bautista and Sébastien Parayre. This interactive seat allows the person seated to control video/sounds/odors thanks to a keyboard and a joystick. Le Fauteuil Interactif â est un fauteuil permettant à la personne qui sây installe de pouvoir cont...
A shoe that controls the amount of TV Kids watch
Via the BBC, a shoe that controls the amount of TV Kids watch: The shoe - dubbed Square-eyes - has a unique insole that records the amount of exercise a child does and converts it into television watching time. One button on the shoe - the brainchild of a student at west London's Brunel University ...
Location awareness and its effects on rendezvousing
A paper close to my research topic (the impacts of location awareness on collaborative processes/behavior): Effect of Location-Awareness on Rendezvous Behaviour by David Dearman, Kirstie Hawkey, Kori Inkpen, Dalhousie University, Canada. Short paper at CHI 2005:This paper is a very interesting acco...
Nintendo Revolution possible game controller
Via Joystiq, a picture of a rumored/possible game controller for the next Nintendo console: Lots of people thinks it's a fake. It may be. Anyway, I found it interesting to report this design here since it makes me think of a paper by Leganchuk, Shumin and Buxton: Manual and Cognitive Benefits of Tw...
Estimating human interruptibility
Predicting human interruptibility with sensors by ames Fogarty, Scott E. Hudson, Christopher G. Atkeson, Daniel Avrahami, Jodi Forlizzi, Sara Kiesler, Johnny C. Lee, Jie Yang in Transactions on Human Computer Interactions, Volume 12 , Issue 1 (March 2005), pp. 119 - 146. A person seeking another pe...
Inflatable Big Screen for the Ultimate Pool Party
An interesting device (!) to host outdoor film in a big, high-quality way (as said by the website). It's an inflatable screen that works as an outdoor theater system. you can make the most of your pool or patio by bringing up the lights on movies and video games. Originally developed for resorts an...
Collaboration and interaction with very large computer graphics images
Ubiquutous Graphics is a project carried out by Johan Sanneblad at the Future Application Lab in Goteborg. The project shows how position-aware handheld displays can function as "magic lenses" that allow seamless access to both overview and detail on a large display. The system also allows several ...
Technojewelry and wearable technology
IDEO's Technojewelry devices are appealing. There is the Penta Phone and the Ring Phone Penta Phone and Ring Phone are concepts for mobile phones. The design takes its cue from the universal gesture for using a telephone, but is feasibly grounded in the nanotechnology research emerging from start...
DIY, punks and fortune
Great piece on Fortune about the rise of a Do It Yourself economy. It's funny to see how the values of the underground (like the DIY attitude adopted by the punks since the 70s) is now contaminating the mainstream capitalism. Now, it's not only a matter of concepts/trends/ideas/meme that become mai...