Just few notes taken while dreaming: Location Awareness in Mobile Collaboration some activities are carried out by different persons at different locations location of others, tools, material, resources is meaningful for the participants participants can know that partner A is at location X and pa...
[Research] Field Experiments: between field study and lab experiment
I really appreciate the concept of "field experiment" described by Goodman, Brewster and Gray (2004) in their paper Using Field Experiments to Evaluate Mobile Guides. Field experiments are quantitative experimental evaluations that are carried out in the field, drawing from aspects of both qualitat...
[Research] Lab experiment to evaluate mobile computing
J.Kjeldskov and M.B.Skov (2003) Creating Realistic Laboratory Settings: Comparative Studies of Three Think-Aloud Usability Evaluations of a Mobile System, Proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Interact 2003.The authors adresse the topic of mobile d...
[Research] Conference tips
How to get the most out of conferences: Conversations are more valuable than the sessions Coming up with a plan: Go through the guidebook with a pen, and mark anything that looks interesting. If you find things that sound cool but vague, flip open the proceedings and check them out. If it looks l...
[Weird] Recursive Christmas Trees
In Geneva, the trend was to put xmas trees in trees: ...
[Research] Workload Evaluation
I am considering using the NASA Task Load Index (NASA TLX) to get some insights about our tool in CatchBob!. It's not the core aspect of my research but it might give us some insights about the subjective perception of the workload. The NASA TLX is a multi-dimensional rating scale for operators to...
[Space and Place] Another cool Lucy Orta project
Gosh! I really appreciate the kind of stuff she does. This project is called Life Nexus Village ...
[Space and Place] Refuge wear: city outfi of the future?
Refuge Wear is a project by Lucs Orta. She designed a kind-of urban armour: In 1992, Lucy Orta began making a series of drawings entitled Refuge Wear as a response to situations of human distress and unsuitable social environments. She then fabricated a series of these temporary shelters that trans...
[Research] How virtual environment users derive shape from information space.
Andrew Dillon wrote an interesting paper about shape and information space in Journal of the American Society for Information Science: Spatial-Semantics: How Users Derive Shape from Information Space The ability to perceive structure in abstract information spaces is crucial to navigation and searc...
[Space and Place] Nice container in Geneva, someone might live there
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