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Tetris and distributed cognition
David Kirsh and Paul Maglio wrote a very smart paper about Tetris and distributed cognition: Perceptive Actions in Tetris in Control of Selective Perception, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium 1992 . Still have to put my summary here ;) ...
Augmented video as a mechanism for improving collaboration and decision making
I stumbled across this research project at University of San Diego: Passing the Bubble: We study augmented video as a mechanism for improving collaboration and decision making. Our special focus is decision making that depends on decision-makers and information analysts sharing their understanding....
A micro-jet engine in your cell phone
A bit old season (fall 2004), but still stunning: Miniature jet engines could power cellphones: Engineers have moved a step closer to batch producing miniaturised, jet engine-based generators from a single stack of bonded silicon wafers. These chip-based “microengines” could one day power mobile el...
An Autogrill Monument to remenber
The autogrill monument located on an Autogrill. A project by Zeo-th and Ivar Lyngve, Luther Thie. AutoGrill Monument is a sublime ambient display of real-time highway fatalities integrated into the popular Italian roadside restaurant AutoGrill in Novara, Italy. Each time a highway fatality occurs o...
How do people share information
(via) A report I had a quick glance today: Toward Understanding Preferences for Sharing and Privacy (.pdf) by Judith Olson, Jonathan Grudin and Eric Horvitz (Microsoft). It's about how people share information. This is based on survey conducted on 30 persons working in small and medium size compan...
Homeplay: a trackball to explore a town
While googling I ran across Homeplay, a less known project of collectif fact. I like the concept a lot! Spectator has a trackball in a hand and stands in front of the model of a town. On top, on the roof of the building, images are projected, those can be images of inside apartments, looking from t...
Mobile Music Technology: 2nd international workshop
There is a smart workshop about Mobile Music Technologorganized by the great Future Application Lab in association with NIME 2005 in Vancouver, May 25. The organizer are Lalya Gaye (Hi lalya!) and Lars Erik Holmquist + Atau Tanaka (great musician!). In the late 1970's, the Walkman liberated recorde...
CatchBob! analysis: division of labor
I wrote a script to parse the CatchBob! logfiles. It allowed me to get interesting indexes with regard to the collaborative behavior of the players. CatchBob is a treasure hunt; thus it's a spatial task in which participants have to collaborate to do the shortest path to the object (that's what the...
Monkey research and computer games
David Washburn a cognitive scientist, uses video games to investigate various monkey psychological processes. For instance, in his research about how macaques explore virtual mazes, he employed the following device: The apparatus is used for computer task research with rhesus monkeys. The monkey re...