A study of people''s sketching habits in GIS by Andreas Glaser. Abstract: Sketching is traditionally associated withdoodling simple strokes on a piece of paper.Only few professionals outside of design andthe fine arts have recognized the expressivepower of this intuitive modality. However,sketching...
3M Innovation: highly protected dollars
(via) 3M recently completed an amazing poster-stunt in Vancouver, Canada. They prepped a bus shelter ad with a 3M product called Scotchshield, a see-through film that you can apply to glass which makes it near bulletproof, and filled the postersite with lots of play money, and 500 real Canadian dol...
Modeling Collaborative Activities
I still have to find ideas and methods to include some computational aspects in my PhD (I'm in a computer science faculty geeeeeeez). That's why I am looking at some paper about modeling collaborative situations. I stumbled across this one after meeting the author: Analyse et modélisationdes activ...
AfterLife
AfterLife is a project by Auger and Loizeau that aims at "exploring faith and bereavement for griveing atheists through an electrical intrepretation of life after death". The project basically aims at using cadavers as a resource to produce some energy. More information in the pdf report. their mot...
Microsoft Research China\'s take on Innovation Management
Microsoft's Hong-Jiang Zhang: The Process of Product Innovation in ACM's weekly newsfeed . UBIQUITY: And what are your biggest challenges? ZHANG: I think number one is simply that it's never been easy to transfer research innovation into product, so that's really been a challenge. Researchers tend ...
How to develop a collaborative mobile game
My EPFL co-worker Fabien wrote a postmortem report (.pdf) about our CatchBob! project in which he describes the whole development process. He presents how we designed CatchBob on two platforms (namely iPAQ and TabletPC) and how he implemented it. The report goes throught the whole thing, dealing wi...
You want a fancy concept? Echolocation
(via) Echolocation is a method of sensory perception by which certain animals orient themselves to their surroundings, detect obstacles, communicate with others, and find food. In echolocation a series of short, high-pitched sounds are emitted by an animal. These sounds travel out away from the ani...
Dial +33(0) 63 27 22 06 5 and the energy produced by your phone will be recycled!
This seems to be an appealing project: +33 (0) 63 27 22 06 5. If your dial +33(0) 63 27 22 06 5, the energy produced by your phone is going to be recycled! It's carried out by David Strebel. A banner is attached to a building. "Recyclez votre Appel +33 (0) 63 27 22 06 5" (Recycle your call) is prin...
Misuse or Underuse of Competitive Intelligence in the USA
(via), Outward Insights, LLC conducted a a survey about the effectiveness and use of competitive intelligence across a number of industries. The results are interesting: A majority of U.S.-based companies that claim to use competitive intelligence (CI) to guide their decision-making processes eithe...
Catchbob Map analysis
Thanks Fabien for your help! We know have a php script that automatically generates a map of CatchBob! users' path. This map is going to be of interest since I want to calculate the number of error an individual made while drawing his own path like this one (here it is correct). In addition, I wil...