Discussion with my adviser a bout the role of space. If you're asleep in an airplane, you wake up and you don't know where you are. Then check the light on the ground, it can depicts the urban structure/organization. If the repartition is like the picture on the right, it could be the UK; if it's m...
[Design] And now it\'s about virtual chopsticks
It seems that I am in a design oriented mood today. I just ran across these Virtual Chopsticks. What's interesting here is the analysis of the processes that occurs while people learn how to use these tools. Tools are expected to provide users with good metaphors in future interactive systems for i...
[Design] Handphone Table!
Since Pasta and Vinegar is in a raging war with regine, I have to use a wild card: a 25 years old table which is still impressice: The Handphone Table made by Laurie Anderson in 1978. It is now part of the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France. When the listeners put their elbo...
[Research] A catchbob test
We ran another test of CatchBob today. Things went pretty well (technically speaking I am impressed by the reliability of the system: the system never crashes!). Today we tried the system without the location awareness tool: players were just aware of their position and not of the whereabouts of th...
[Video Games] French video games companies are struggling
Since Electronic Arts took a 20% shared of Ubi Soft (a french video game editor), there has been huge complaints from the french government/industry. I think the NYT made a clear point about this: Splinter Cell, a popular video game based on Tom Clancy's action thriller novels. Would-be Sam Fishers...
[Tech] Foot-based mobile interaction with games
Reimann, C.; Paelke, Volker; Stichling, Dirk: Foot-based mobile Interaction with Games. In: ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE). Singapore, Juni 2004 Interaction with mobile applications is often awkward due to the limited and miniaturized inpu...
[CRAFT] Our lab has 4 opened positions
Our lab has 4 positions. If you're interested email pierre dot dillenbourg at epfl dot ch. Designing and testing collaborative technology-enhanced furniture, such as noise-sesntive tables. Looking for a creative techie having done his PhD or willing to do a PhD in the field of roomware, tangibles ...
[Research] Reshaped definition of mutual modeling
I came up with this: Mutual Modeling: process by which an individual (i) picks up facts he/she estimates to be MANIFEST and RELEVANT in his/her cognitive environment (with regard to the partners’ intents), (ii) builds a representation (more or less formal) about the partners’ intents. ...
[LifeHack] What is your RSS consumption strategy?
That's a question I always think about: how to cope with a too large number of RSS feeds? Roland Tanglao answers: here's how I plan on eliminating my RSS information overload: Subscribe only to 150 blogs at the most. These 150 will be people not search feeds from PubSub, Feedster, etc. and I will r...
[Space and Place] A day in Sanktgallen
In the swiss german part of Switzerland... ...