I ran across this at the railway station in Geneva this morning. What's really interesting is that this object was here for one month but a piece of red tissue covered the top where it is written 'ebay exchange point' . ...
When communication is not possible...
The last issued of Ericsson's ON magazine has an article about coordination of field workers. when police, fire, rescue and medical personnel can not talk to each toher on the same network, accidents can quickly become tragedies. Why do I blog this? because it's interesting to strengthen the fact t...
[VideoGames] Friendship formation in MMORPG
Nick Yee conducted a project about friendship formation in MMORPG. It seems pretty interesting and well documented on this website. While there are many factors inherent in MMORPGs that facilitate the formation of relationships online, it is also equally clear that not all players choose to do so. ...
[Space and Place] Cognition and Design at home
Cognition, Technology and Work has a special issue about designing technologies for home. ...
[Space and Place] This sidewalk has been tagged with RFID!
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[Social] People who don\'t like to network + social software issues
I refuse to hobnob for advantage by Lucy Kellaway (financial times). The whole networking process defeats me, in particular the business cards. I keep my own at the bottom of my handbag, and they are usually a bit grubby on the rare occasions I am required to produce one. Other people's cards go ba...
Rapport très intéressant sur la production d'idées à Lyon: "Une vie intellectuelle aÌ Lyon ? Allons donc, vous reÌvez !", s'est ainsi entendu reÌpondre Pierre-Alain Four, qui a eu l'audace d'aller interroger sur le sujet des acteurs de la citeÌ exerçant ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler un "m...
[Space and place] Space hijackers
I recently discovered the Space Hijackers, an anarchitect group made up of smart folks who seem to hack the urban environment in various ways. Our group is dedicated to battling the constant oppressive encroachment onto public spaces of institutions, corporations and urban planners. We oppose the w...
[Space and place] Now it\'s about road design
The International Herald Tribune has a piece about road design. It's about Hans Monderman, a dutch traffic engineer who advocates for virtually naked cities, "stripped of all lights, signs and road markings, but there was no division between road and sidewalk. It was, basically, a bare brick square...
[Tech] The georb!
The georb by Global Haptics is an interesting interface meant for various purposes: 3D design, VR, web3D, animation, telemanipulation, gaming, or science and technology applications. Our solution is a patented mapping of convex surfaces to 3D geometries through an integrated network of tactile sens...