Yesterday, I was thinking whether linkedin has already been severely hacked. Are there any folks here who created fake linkedin identities/networks (others than jeff nolan) or pretending to be a french president (well it's too obvious here) or a well-known journalist (to gather a wide load of VIP e...
Mirror That Reflects Your Future Self
(via the ACM news service) Odd research at Accenture, in Sophia Antipolis, France: Researchers at Accenture Technology's lab in France are developing a digital "mirror" that modifies a person's image to show the predicted effects of overindulgence, inactivity, and other factors based on the subject...
About stigmergy
Nicolaus just bring this concept to the surface: Stigmergy describes coordination among individuals by communication via modifications of the environment. Here, positive feedback or triggering of behavior can be induced by a modification of the environment that was performed by The individual itse...
Companies and user-testing
User experience: why do so many organizations believe they own it? report from a Silicon Valley gathering by Fred Sampson is a great account about a meeting that focused on usability in private companies. Dear Dr. Usability, I am working for a client who does not want to conduct user research. He j...
A database of corporate commands
(via), the Institute of Infinitely Small Things is lauching a new interesting project that aims at creting a database open to submissions of corporate commands from researchers around the world. WHAT IS A CORPORATE COMMAND? A Corporate Command is an instruction work, a call to action in the form of...
Pedestrian and street simulation
Jamie's simulation seems very appealing. Jamie's work is related to the study of social relationships found in urban areas, as well as the design of proper system to distribute content within a local community (the distibution will be based on collocation events). To meet this end, he built a compu...
Map folding technique: THE tutorial
A good primer on how to fold maps at map reading: It's definetely useful since some people seems to suck at this. ...
UK UbiNet Summer School resources
Last summer was the UK UbiNet Summer School. There are plenty of documents worth to have a glance at. UK-UbiNet is an EPSRC funded network of research in the U.K. in the area of Ubiquitous Computing. The community covers many aspects of research into ubiquitous computing, including networks, sensor...
Confessions of a Technologist who has worked with Psychologists, Artists, Designers, and other Creatures Who are Strange to Me
Randy Pausch is going to be keynote speaker at CHI 2005. His talk (entitled Confessions of a Technologist who has worked with Psychologists, Artists, Designers, and other Creatures Who are Strange to Me) will deal with a smart issue: Cross-disciplinary collaboration is hard.. He worked as a compute...
RePast: a simulation toolkit
I turned myself into simulation lately. When you're not a tech person, it's hard something that can both fit your needs and be simple. Let's have a look at RePast. Our goal with Repast is to move beyond the representation of agents as discrete, self-contained entities in favor of a view of social a...