The programme of the Pervasive and Locative Arts Network seems pretty impressive. I think I'm gonna attend the event to meet people from this community. Speakers include Duncan Campbell, Anne Galloway, Matthew Chalmers, Matt Adams, Bill Gaver, Eyal Weizman, Sally Jane Norman, Giles Lane, Usman Haqu...
[Tech] A list of interactive walls and boards
ewall Activity Wallpaper Weather by Mondrian Bloomberg ICE space biowall iLounge Messa di voce The Onomy Digital Wall Pin and Play not so white wall BlueBoard flocked wallpaper mediate Le Tableau magique enhanced wall Creative collision sur la table Bubbles Update!lightspace (in...
[Research] Meeting with my phd supervisor
meeting with my phd supervisor: - let's test 9 groups (3 without location awareness, 3 with the synchronous tool and 3 without) and then we can refine the methodology: which independent variables using? are the video useful? what can we get from this? - a good phd = 2 experiments - think about the ...
[Locative Media] Formal location metadata in blog description area
There has been a very relevant discussion lately in the geowanking mailing-list "about formal location metadata in blog description area". The point is that since mainstream blog service vendors haven't implemented form input fields for location, it is good enough if we just start sticking raw loca...
[Research] Refreshing meeting with Stefano and Francesco
Something like a "100Gb evening” (see paul baron's definition) meeting with stefano mastrogiacomo and francesco cara. - write up your position in a short paper - when you think about the task: is the weight of the task equal (does one participant has to do all the job?) - grounding = process of inc...
[Weird] Tags on a grounded Concorde
Found on somewhere on http://skyscrapercity.com ...
[Locative media] Great locative media resource
(via), a great locative media resource: dr reinhold grether's directory to mobile art and locative media. netzwissenschaft.de is mapping the emerging infrastructures of all (inter)net research endeavours. net.science as an anthropology of connectivity is trying to overcome the constraints of specia...
[Weird] A Tokyo Firm Plans Underground Farm
A very environmental-friendly news: A 1,000 sq metre former bank vault under an office building in Otemachi, a central Tokyo business district, has been chosen as the site for a high-tech farm growing lettuce, tomatoes, herbs strawberries and rice, the national daily Asahi said on Sunday. The proje...
[Tech] A nice cup
Mediacup, designed and tested by TeCo. The MediaCup is an ordinary coffee cup augmented with sensing, processing and communication capabilities (integrated in the cup's bottom), to collect and communicate general context information in a given environment. It is an example how to equip everyday obj...
[Research] Information Requirements of Distributed Workers
Dix, Alan, and Russell Beale: ‘Information requirements of distributed workers,’ in Alan Dix and Russell Beale (eds.): Remote Cooperation: CSCW Issues for Mobile and Teleworkers, Springer-Verlag, London etc., 1996, pp. 113-143. This chapter concerns two groups of workers: the mobile worker using a ...