(via), jybe, a firefox plugin meant to allow collaborative web-browsing. Jybe is a Peer to Peer plug-in that enables people to surf the web and chat together all in real time. This is not a proxy service but turns your web browser into a de-facto IM client. Why do I blog this? I like this co-surfi...
Table already used!
One of the table has been already used this morning to discuss an european project about location-based services... ...
Students in the process of building their tables for our cscw course
Students finally begins to build one of the table they designed for the cscw course: ...
New Catch Bob scenario!
Scratchnotes taken in the train between Lausanne and Geneva:As we saw earlier today, there are some problems: the task is too simple our tool is not sufficiently used compared to how it can be used for this task ending condition frustrating and unpredictable not enough collaboration/negotiation/d...
Use physical properties as resource for interactions
Bricolage explores how physical properties (such as conductivity, optical qualities or shape) of everyday objects available at hand, can be hacked on the fly to become resources for interaction in ubicomp applications. Bricolage explores the notion of on-the-fly expressive hacking of everyday objec...
Catchbob experiment 6
Today was the 6th experiment with CatchBob. We now have: 4 groups without the location awareness tool and 2 groups with the tool. That means 6 groups then 18 participants. I still need to have 2 or 3 more groups with the tool to do some basic statistics. Then I will have some insights about individ...
IM as THE interface?
I recently tried the SmarterChild, this little bot you put in your AIM contact list. SmarterChild is an interactive agent built by Conversagent, Inc. Interactive agents are software applications, often called "bots," that interact with users on Instant Messaging or other text messaging services. Yo...
Cognitive science and SciFi
A french group of cognitive science researcher are setting up a workshop about the link between science fiction and their disciplines. On March, 7th, there will be a seminar about « Hard neuroscience : Greg Egan, sciences cognitives et philosophie de l’esprit» . If you happen to know french and you...
Motivations to play Augmented Reality Games
T. Nilsen, S. Linton, J. Looser. Motivations for AR Gaming (.pdf). In Proceedings Fuse 04, New Zealand Game Developers Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, 26-29 June 2004, pp 86-93. In Augmented Reality (AR), interfaces consist of a blend of both real and virtual content. In this paper we examine exi...
A nice brush
Just ran across this: I/O Brush, did by Kimiko Ryokai, Stefan Marti, Rob Figueiredo & Hiroshi Ishii at the Tangible media group (MIT). I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a...