I'm on my way to PLAN... hope to meet some locative media folks there... ...
Why and how running a newsletter?
Since lots of people still don't use RSS aggregator, I've came across 2 resources:Basically, why creating a newsletter Keeping in touch with customers (give them special offers, remind them about your site, ensure loyalty, provide useful links) Developing relationships with people who have similar...
The next writing paradigm
The NYT has a very smart column about the coming "tools for thought" that may radically change how people write. The word processor has changed the way we write, but it hasn't yet changed the way we think. (...) But 2005 may be the year when tools for thought become a reality for people who manipul...
Remote control ethnography?
A remote control still wrapped after months... used by one of my accointance... It's obviously not Christo-related. ...
For Rez fans
Rez is one of those fabulous video games with a nice design. It has been created by Tetsuya Mizuguchi. His blog is for japanese fluent geeks. Anyway, there is an interview of him by Tokyopia which is cool to read. TOKYOPIA: Ok. Meteos. You are making a game with Sakurai-san, the designer of Kirby a...
A method to collect mobile phone data
A confidential french seminar about mobile and ubiquitous technology dealt with methods to collect cell phone use. I was not there but my radar pointed me on the slides. Rachel Demumieux and Patrick Losquin from France Telecom presented ACIDU (Application de Collecte des Informations des Usages). T...
Learning while collaborating with video games
Short article in the Wisconsin Technology Network about how video games are now a valuable tool for learning. Firefighters need to be fully prepared, practicing hundreds of times before their first high-rise fire. City officials need to respond to a chemical spill immediately, getting the right inf...
Presence and Interaction in Mixed-Reality Environments
Presence and Interaction in Mixed-Reality Environments is a call for project in the 6th European Framework Programme (2002-2006). The objective of the initiative is to create novel systems that match human cognitive and affective capacities and re-create the different experiences of presence and i...
Link between Mauro\'s project and mine?
A potential project? We discussed this, Mauro, Pierre and I: Collaborative interactions by map annotation: investigating applications where people use locative media as a tool where the textual or graphical communicatoon is embeeded into a map. In our current work, these space annotations can be sy...
Meeting with phd supervisor
The new catchbob scenario is well received by Pierre. He always complained by the simplicity of the task; now he is more convinced. His point is that Bob should be something credible (fire? objects? birds?...) and we have to think about what this task will prove. We can complexify the task with: o...