I found crazy maps on a forum I read on a regular basis. They are impressively interesting from my point of view. It's actually made up by a guy when he was a kid dreaming of putting subways everywhere in France. ...
[Research] Pervasive Computing in Sports
I ran across this call for paper: Pervasive Computing in Sports. Submission Deadline: 14 February 2005. IEEE Pervasive Computing invites articles relating to the use of pervasive computing in sports to enhance the sport (or game) and/or experiences for players, spectators, and/or judges. We hope to...
[Research] Lecture about how the physical environment supports social and collaborative processes
Just finished my slides for tomorrow's lecture. I will talk about how the physical environment supports social and collaborative processes. The handout is here. It is basically a pdf files that shows some illustrations of what constitutes a fragment of the literature review of my phd thesis. The pi...
[Tech] The Virtual Raft Project
The Virtual Raft Project by Bill Tomlinson and others. The Virtual Raft Project is a multidisciplinary undertaking seeking to create communities of believable autonomous characters that inhabit heterogeneous networks of computational devices. In particular, the project is interested in allowing the...
[LifeHack] A specific setting to make fruits more mature
It's a shame this banana is not mature enough to liberate ethylen acid so that it can make my clementine more mature... ...
[Space and Place] History of the traffic light invention
Howdy! Fascinating facts about the inventionof the Traffic Light : The world’s first traffic light came into being before the automobile was in use, and traffic consisted only of pedestrians, buggies, and wagons. Installed at an intersection in London in 1868, it was a revolving lantern with red an...
[Space and Place] A glimpse of african architecture
A pictural website about african architecture I found while looking for stuff about social use of space. The first snapshot depicts a Gurunsi concession that acts as a panopticon. The second and the third one shows a yoruba compound ("archetype of the iconography of form in what constitutes concept...
[Research] A nice research blog
I just came across the blog of Philip Jeffrey. I already read few papers by him about social behavior in virtual space but I was not aware he had a blog. It seems that he noew move (like I did) in the field of context-aware computing. Unfortunately, the blog is not update since november... My idea ...
[Space and Place] RIP Medialab Europe
The MediaLab Europe seems to be dying because its principal stakeholders - the Irish Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - have not reached agreement on a new funding model for the organisation. Here is an analysis of why it failed. Like many interdisciplinary approaches ...
[Future] An ethnographer in the Silicon Valley
I just read a nice book by Marc Abélès: Les Nouveaux Riches Un ethnologue dans la Silicon Valley. It's in french. The author is a french ethnographer who reports us his study of dot.comers in the Silicon Valley who turns themselves from the "stingy valley attitude" to philanthropy. The most interes...