freehand drawing interfaces explored in 60s (light pens ) but failed, the mouse won now tablets+ pda offer drawing tools: renewed interest towrds freehand drawing interfaces especially used in design, architecture,a bit for military operations support creative design but not so many work in coordi...
Relevance of using map annotations
Forbus, K., Usher, J., and Chapman, V. (2003). Sketching for military courses of action diagrams. In York, A. P. N., editor, Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces, pages 61â68, Miami, Florida. "A serious barrier to the digitalization of the US military is...
MIT admirers in Europe plan rival
According to the Financial Times, there should be a European Institute of Technology based on the MIT model: European commentators frequently mention MIT as the best model of an institution that carries out world-class research and teaching in science and technology, while maintaining strong links ...
Location-based services and marketing
A new blog to check: location-based services in NZ by Clara Leung. It's mostly about here thesis entitled "'The Perceived Value of Location-Based Services in New Zealand Tourism'". little bit more about myself - I'm a postgraduate student completing the second year of my Master of Commerce degree ...
Yahoo moves to mobile games
(via) In a strategic move to battle against Google, Yahoo! started a mobile game studio and -of course- bought some game studio (Stadeon). "Yahoo wants to be part of the party," said Janco Partners analyst Martin Pyykkonen. Yahoo's strategy is to use games as well as e-mail and other services to ke...
Bruce Sterling\'s take about his digitized belongings
Bruce Sterling's column about how he digitized his belongings while moving from Austin to Pasadena. When I was formerly a Texan author-journalist type rather than a Californian "visionary," I naturally lived like a pack rat. Then I drove my hybrid electric across I-10 to the gloriously unfurnished ...
New blog about the future of marketing
After Future Now, IFTF came up with a new blog on the future of marketing: IFTF's future of marketing Why are we creating a new blog on the future of marketing? No, I'm not trying to become the Nick Denton of futures blogging. Okay, maybe I am, just a little bit. But there are bigger reasons for la...
Utopic map of Lyon, 1925
I ran across this utopic map of Lyon, France, 1925. It's crazy how utopian urban planners at that time envisionned the city. It is currently not to squared now... ...
Open Source Community Building
A very neat masters thesis project via Hannes: "Open Source Community Building." by Matthias Stuermer (University of Bern). Building an active and helpful community around an open source project is a complex task for its leaders. Therefore investigations in this work are intended to define the opti...
Map Sketches Promotes Collaboration
Another reference that might help me to analyse the map drawn by CatchBob! participants:Heiser, J., Tversky, B. and Silverman, M. (2004). Sketches for and from collaboration. In J. S. Gero, B. Tversky, and T. Knight (Editors). Visual and spatial reasoning in design III. Pp. 69-78. Sydney: Key Centr...