Playshop is described as an "an open-access laboratory which encourages the free flow of ideas. It presents projects, workshops, seminars, art installations and a web site that collectively question or challenge the role of technology and propose alternatives to the cultural social and economic sys...
Weird eBay bid: the A-team eggs
(via bayrider), an odd ebay id: the A-Team eggs: ...
Craigslist + google map = Craigsmap
Now you can visualize Craigslists housing on Google maps here. Nice and usefull! ...
What\'s your personal video game history?
The IFTF is starting new research project on games: What's your personal video game history?. To help us develop this history, we’d like to invite you to share your personal experiences with electronic games. Videogames are definitely included, but even earlier is fine. As long as some bits and byt...
What's your personal video game history?
The IFTF is starting new research project on games: What's your personal video game history?. To help us develop this history, we’d like to invite you to share your personal experiences with electronic games. Videogames are definitely included, but even earlier is fine. As long as some bits and byt...
You Are What You Listen to
According to researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Co-workers sharing digital music in the workplace via Apple Computer’s popular iTunes® software form impressions of each other based on their musical libraries “People sharing music in our study ...
Nabaztag: a WiFi rabbit as awareness tool
Nabaztag is a WiFi rabbit designed by Violet (a company focused on the design of products and services based on calm and emotional technologies). This rabbit can access the Internet. The most interesting part is that the colors change deppending on various parameters: the weather, car traffic or re...
Meeting with my PhD advisor
- keep doing the analysis: sequential analysis + nasa tlx + overlaps/backchannel/dispersion/covariate with bob's position + regression/multilevel modelling...- when looking at means differences, we have to be careful about the differences. For instance, a difference of 1 units (i.e. between 4 and 5...
Analysis of mold annotations
Another interesting and somehow improbable research project: Annotations of Prostheses (still at the University of San Diego): The orthopedist annotated this mold of a polio patient’s right leg to represent areas from which to refrain from filing. This mold goes on with a form to a fabricator. The...
Awareness and cooperative work in a café-restaurant
This paper (in french even though the abstract is in english) might be of interest, I'll peruse it in the train tonight: Awareness and cooperative work in a café-restaurant by Béatrice Cahour and Barbara Pentimalli. In Activités Vol. 2 No 1. In this paper we present a workplace study of the collabo...