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[Space and Place] Another strange city
This makes me think about an exhibit I visited in Lyon by Jordi Colomer: I also really like how this artist reshaped Barcelona's Torre Agbar: ...
[Research] Self-confrontation to the replay in our experiments
In our experiments, we are using a self-confrontation to the replay of the game. Players are shown the path they took and I ask them few questions ranging from very open at the beginning to more specific at the end. The point is to get information about they inferred the partners strategies. As you...
[Research] Analysing behavior toward maps
Brown, B. and E. Laurier (2005) Designing electronic maps: an ethnographic approach (.pdf). To appear in: L. Meng, A. Zipf, T. Reichenbacher (Eds.), Map-based mobile services – Theories, Methods and Implementations. Springer Verlag While ethnographic methods are an established tool for requirements...
[Locative Media] Map Hacks has a blog
For all the folks like me who are waiting the Mapping Hacks book by Jo Walsh and Eric Schuyler, there is a blog about it. "GPS units are nearly everywhere, integrated into cars and even mobile phones. With this collection of mostly free techniques, you can create and share useful digital mapping se...
[Research] 2005-2006 planning
Here is what we plan with my phd supervisor for the two next years I'll be working here at EPFL. ...
[Weird] Student Internship about algorithm to find fake watch websites
Incredible internship proposal: The Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry ("Fédération horlogère suisse") needs some tools and methodologies to find web sites proposing fake watches. (It this link does not work, use the one in the google cache). Project 5: Hunt fake watches The Federation of the S...
[Research] Thoughts about task design
Discussion with thomas about task design in experiment: My question ALWAYS is: Can you abstract from the task? What are are the measures? What are external instruments that - for instance - measure personality, states, an traits, etc. In short: It depends how well the study is conducted. Next to th...
[Research] Mauro\'s project
There is now a webpage for Mauro's project: Communication has suffered from the clearing of spatial references since the invention of the telephone or the radio. Nevertheless, spatial informations are used all the time by the agents-in-relation to reconstitute the context of the messages exchange. ...
[Research] A great research group
Just found this: Monkey Methods which appearrs to be of tremendous interest: Monkey Methods Research Group is an experimental playground for cool technology that matters to people. Our latest project is a BitTorrent search engine, which we're working on along with a couple other ideas. And what exa...