Here are four tables our students made up. They had to design a proper shape that should support collaboration among a group (made of 4 persons). We managed to produce them, and now they will have to test this setting with a specific activity. The one-hour session will be videotaped and they will h...
Serious todo list
- catchbob 2 scenario- catchbob analysis to be reshaped (individual + group) - listen to catchbob mp3s - catchbob log parser: number of message + backchannel/overlap - catchbob nasa tlx capture + analysis - catchbob images: qualitative analysis on HypeResearch - catchbob paper for UbiMob - catchbob...
Augmented Reality and children play
Cool research project about interaction design and children in Paris. Why do I blog this? I am interested into the way the guy wants to analyse the activity flow from a temporal perspective, with visualizations. ...
Access point Games and WiFi
Use Wi-Fi To Play Access Point Games is a column in extreme tech about using WiFi acces points in mobile games. That's actually what we do in CatchBob. Briefly, the games described in this article are: Foxhunt—Find the hidden access point AP-Hunt—Discover the most access points in a set amount of...
A model of spatial awareness
This picture quickly depicts the two level of the model of inference I am working on. People tend to make inferences/decisions influenced by the position of others in space plus all the affordances of space (cultural meaning + physical settings + topography...). The focus of our work here is also t...
Is this the street art future?
I am a great fan of 'fiducial marker', namely, the tag used to be recognized by Augmented Reality systems to display virtual stuff on glasses or screen. I like it because it tells me that the area I visit has some related content (since somebody tagged it). Of course I would need glasses to access ...
What computer professionals call \"software hell\"
Nicholas Carr strikes again in the IHT: A look at the private sector reveals that software debacles are routine. And the more ambitious the project, the higher the odds of disappointment. (...) Research by the Standish Group, a software research and consulting firm, illustrates the troubled fates o...
Are OutRaGeouS jobs the jobs of tomorrow?
Just got this from my tribe account: Hi tribers, We know our members have cool & unusual interests and talents. So to make the most of that, we've created a new jobs category called OutRaGeouS jobs. This is the place to list non-mature stuff that you need to hire for (or have to offer) that might b...
[LifeHack] Blogpost structure
I am trying to move forward into work efficiency. Blogposts from Pasta And Vinegar will have the following structure from now on: title with the [category] content with the link + author + date when available a short note with "why do I blog this" to explains why it interested me I am not sure wh...
[Space and Place] Research about the importance of crowds
The Stanford Humanity Lab has a research project about crowds that sounds pretty nice. CROWDS focuses on the rise and fall of the crowd -- particularly the revolutionary crowd -- in the Western sociopolitical imagination between 1789 and the present. Participants are broadly concerned with explorin...