The AMBIENTE research division (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany) aims at "bringing together the best elements of traditional games such as board games and computer entertainment forming a new class of hybrid games with numerous opportunities for innovation in game design". Their STARS platform enable...
A nice aerial vehicle
Urban Aeronautics is a new company that work on aerial vehicles. Their puprose is to create and market the world’s first FAA certifiable, VTOL, multi-mission, aerial, utility vehicle capable of operating safely in complex urban and natural environments. Quite a nice innovation! Their X-Hawk is cool...
Location systems are not yet ubiquitous
An interesting short paper in Communication of the ACM about location-based services by Gaetano Borriello, Matthew Chalmers, Anthony LaMarca, Paddy Nixon: Delivering real-world ubiquitous location systems : Location systems are not yet ubiquitous, but are increasing their accuracy, coverage, and av...
btw I am back on board
I spent a week in Mauritius but now I am fully powered back on P&V... ...
France Telecom\'s journal of social software
French multinational France Telecom now has a very relevant blog about social software and digital communities: affinity. Few posts at the moment but it sounds promising. Affinity is a journal of research, innovation and ideas in the emerging field of social software. Jointly written by Wanadoo, Or...
A virtual colloquium about spatial cognition
Barbara Tversky ( from Stanford University) is going to hold a virtual colloquium about spatial cognition on Friday, February 25, 2005, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. EST. It is about 'Multiple Mental Spaces' We engage in spatial cognition from the first moments of life: where to look, where to reach, where to g...
Discussion about location awareness\' definition
Mauro posted a definition of 'location awareness' on his blog last week. He defines it as "A continuous availability of the spatial positions of the agents involved in the interaction for the agents themselves.". Since I am dealing a lot with this fuzzy notion on awareness, I would like to comment ...
Anne Galloway\'s comments about OPEN PLAN
At OPEN PLAN, anne galloway mentioned that she felt like being the only person coming fom social sciences attending the locative media event. She is indeed an anthropologist/ethnographer. As a cognitive psychogist, that is also something I can feel. Among all the discussions we attended, there seem...
Swedish interactive lab PLAY becomes RE:FORM
Th swedish interactive lab PLAY now becomes RE:FORM. The Interactive Institute's RE:FORM studio investigates technology as design material. While the typical notion of 'form' is physical shape, we believe that in considering computation as a design material, concepts of form must be fundamentally r...
IM users typology
A strikingly relevant and simple typology IM users by Danah Boyd. She makes an interesting discussion between IM as a presence versus a communication tool. I have a round-the-clock presence on AIM, even if frequently idle. I share this round-the-clockness with some of my buddies - people who always...