Agir dans un monde incertain: essai sur la démocratie technique by Michel Callon, Pierre Lascoumes and Yannick Barthe. Ed. Seuil (2001) (in french). This book addresses the relationship between experts and amateurs in today's current science debate exemplifying various topics (gmo, nuclear wastes) ...
Unit of analysis in CSCW: individual or group?
My notes taken from Kenny, D. A., Kashy, D. A., Bolger, N. (1998) Data analysis in social psychology. In D. Gilbert, S. Fiske, & G. Lindzey (eds.) Handbook of social psychology , vol. 1, pp. 233-251. Boston: McGraw-Hill.p233 majors strides have been made in the analysis of data in which persons in...
The googlehouse
The googlehouse designed by Marika Dermineur, Stéphane Degoutin is an online process that builds a house with images of domestic rooms (living room, tv room...) picked up on the internet using an image search engine. ...
Reverse engineering on search engine uses
IC agency, a geneva-based internet agency is focused on competitive intelligence as well as gaining a better understanding of what customer wants. Their point is to provide their clients with "creative insight and technical expertise in integrating autonomous online and offline marketing strategies...
Koko-memo (Here-it-is)
Koko-memo (Here-it-is) is a a prototype handheld map annotation system that allow users of the system annotate maps close to the location of the users. It's done by Tomoko Imai, Naoki Sakakibara and Chika Sekine (UDIT Ltd.) + Hoshino Takeshi (Design Center, Hitachi Ltd.) The hardware is a commercia...
An electronic fly-swatting device
(via), The fly catcher is an electronic fly-swatting device based on the idea of the Venus fly trap. A non-toxic bait based at the bottom of the jaws lures the insect inside. As the insect crawls into the mouth of the trap, two sensors detect the insect causing the mouth to shut, swatting the insec...
An chinese egg with a tail
(via), an egg in China has been found with a tail: The egg, found by chef Wang of at his restaurant in Anyang city, Henan province, is normal size, but has a tail that is 3 cm long. It is not known why the egg has the tail reports Dahe Daily. Wang says he wants to hatch the egg and see what will co...
Visklek: exploration of the Chinese Whispers concept
Visklek is a project carried ou by the Interactive Institute in Sweden. The Chinese Whispers (visklek in Swedish) is a game that you might have played as a child. At [visklek.se] the game takes a new form - instead of sitting in a circle and whispering a word to someone sitting next to you, we have...
A ski heads-up display with a speedometer
Some hackers propose to put sensor under your ski so that you can have a measure of your speed displayed on your goggles! Using optical mouse technology, you could mount an LED and an optical sensor to the underside of a ski or snowboard to measure the speed you are travelling over the snow. A nume...
Burn you flag! flyers and posters
Regine's post reminded me that I am a great fan of a label/concert organizer called Burn Your Flag! in Lyon. They enable punkrockers to have thriving musical events there, with a wide bunch of underground bands that often worth it. What I particularly like is their posters they spreak around the ci...