Interview in Gamasutra on handheld gaming. The guy advocates for the "small is beautiful" approach. "With handheld development, the teams are smaller than big console production, and that inherently has appeal for us. This is just because we can focus more on the creative effort, and fun factor, an...
[Research] Uncertainty about how LBS report people\'s location
A very nice paper: Benford, S., Seagar, W., Flintham, M., Anastasi, R., Rowland, D., Humble, J., Stanton, D., Bowers, J., Tandavanitj, N., Adams, M., Farr, J. R., Oldroyd, A., and Sutton, J. (2004). The error of our ways: The experience of self-reported position in a location-based game. In Proceed...
A list of interactive tables
THIS LIST OF INTERACTIVE TABLE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED FOR AGES, it was collected for a project that I've done few years ago that is now completed A list of interactive tables that may support collaboration (for students projects in our cscw course: basic meeting tables: della rovere gestarr interac...
[Lifehack?] What\'s in your backpack
Some stuff in my backpack: ...
[Tech] Turn old-handsets into useful gizmos
The Guardian on "Unwanted mobiles to get new lease of life ". The communications giant Nokia has developed technology that turns unwanted mobile phones into a range of useful electronic gizmos, including alarm clocks, handheld games and TV remote controls. The move is designed to help dispose of th...
[Space and Place] A micro-sociological look at how pedestrians walk around towns
When our steps merge meaningfully with the urban spaceOn perception and expression when walking in town, a paper (in french) about urban walking. This study takes a micro-sociological look at how pedestrians walk around towns. The aim is to highlight the various ways in which city-dwellers gain acc...
[Tech] Technorati cosmos within NetNewsWire
Today I am focused on semantic web tool. One of the winner of the Technorati Developer Contest. Dave Sifry announced the winners. I am particularly interested in what Niall Kennedy did: AppleScript plugin that you add to NetNewsWire which will subscribe to the Technorati Cosmos RSS feed for the ite...
[Tech] Durl: a RSS feed for del.icio.us URL queries
(via roland), a new tool that seems really promising: Durl. To put it shortly, it's a search engine for del.icio.us. Enter a url to retrieve information about people who delicious'ed it. del.icio.us already provides this service, Durl completes that with an RSS feed containing those results and tre...
[Tech] Behavior towards IM in France
A paper about IM and MSN messenger in the french newspaper Le Monde. They report that : If your had to keep just two media, which one would you choose? 12-15 years old answered: Internet (61 %), television (49 %), cinema (35 %), radio (29 %), daily press (17 %) and magazines (9 %). (...) In France,...
[Research] ACM Advances in Computer Entertainment Conference 2005
A place to be? ACE 2005: The field of computer entertainment technology has aroused great interest recently amongst researchers and developers in both academic and industrial / business fields as it is duly recognized as showing high promise of bringing on exciting new forms of human computer inter...