I am eager to see this kind of parasitism phenomenon happening in an urban environment: I saw once a project in Lyon by a guy called Bernard Murignieux (called Constructions Parasites, in french) that shows huge temporary construction on city walls. My picture (december 2003) is a bit shitty but yo...
[Weird] Shoes thrown in the air
Some crazy folk threw his shoes in the air, close to my window: ...
[Locative Media] Location Based Services scenarios
Have a glance at some location-based services scenarios in geo-community. It's a bit rusty and cliché, but it appears to be a good summary of what was expected in 2001. Applying LBS to people alwas tend to lead to safety applications. I think it's a pity, there would be more interesting scenarios (...
[Research] Mixed reality and location awareness
B.Brown, I.McColl, M.Chalmers, A.Galani, C.Randell, and A.Steed (2003). Lessons from the lighthouse: Collaboration in a shared mixed reality system. In Proceedings of the CHI 2003 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 577–584, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. ACM Press: NY. These finding...
[Research] CatchBob constraints
In CatchBob, we are interested in an activity (depicted on the figure below) that fits 4 constraints: space constraints: the activity occurs on the field, people are highly mobile time constraint: the activity does not last very long: few hours maximum organizational constraint: decentralized team...
[Space and Place] Nice red light in Lyon
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[Mobile] A mobile monday in switzerland
Jerome came up with the interesting idea of having a mobile monday-like meeting on a regular basis in Switerzland. The idea is pretty cool. Such meeting could deal with lots of concepts. I tried to sketch a list (it's actually broad): A another poitn would be to do something a bit more different th...
[Future] Street level innovation
One session at Doors of Perception 8 will "look at the street as a site of innovation. Sixty percent of the population in many Asian cities lives in shantytowns: what can we learn from how they innovate to survive? We'll hear about migrants' lives in Chinese cities, and compare New Delhi street lif...
[Research] A meta-review of mobile computing evaluation techniques
Lately I read lots of paper by Jesper Kjledskov. The guy wrote interesting stuff about the evaluation of mobile computing devices. One of his best paper is a meta-review of the techniques employed to do so:Kjeldskov J. and Graham C. (2003) A Review of MobileHCI Research Methods. In Proceedings of t...
[Space and Place] Motility: a new capital
Commuting from Lausanne to Geneva as usual, I read a very nice paper by Vincent Kauffman about the concept of motility: this construct describes the potential and actual capacity of goods, information, or people to be mobile both geographically and socially. Three major features of motility – acces...