Here are my notes on Bruce Sterling's talk in Munich. It was about his spime concept. Shaping Things to Come: there are six trends, convergent and integral part of a general concept, six sides of a black box: interactive ships, objects can be labelles with unique identity local and precise positio...
[Research] Still trying to sketch a better definition of mutual modeling
I am trying to define mutual modeling as something more process-oriented. I defined it earlier as the "representation of the partner cognitive state, namely inferences an individual make about his/her partner’s goals, purposes, intents, understanding". Now that I read some claims about Sperber and ...
[Weird] Ugly cushions
Trane co designed ugly cushions. I cannot find any link about it (via) ...
[Space and Place] Frozen spider webs
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[Research] Engestrom's structure of activity
Engestrom, Y. (1990). Learning, working, and imagining: Twelve studies in activity theory. Helsinki, Finland: Orienta-Konsultit Oy. I am currently using it to describe the CatchBob activity. Engestrom (1990) proposes a schematic view of activity involving mediation. &&In the model, the subject refe...
[Research] Engestrom\'s structure of activity
Engestrom, Y. (1990). Learning, working, and imagining: Twelve studies in activity theory. Helsinki, Finland: Orienta-Konsultit Oy. I am currently using it to describe the CatchBob activity. Engestrom (1990) proposes a schematic view of activity involving mediation. &&In the model, the subject refe...
[Research] Interesting discussion with Alex
In order to keep track of interesting stuff, I report here the discussion we had with Alex about user-centered design on Future now. One of the perogatives of being a blog author is that you can elevate interesting comments to the level of posts. When I saw that John Thackara had left a comment on ...
[Future] Artist rankings: chart-based reputation system
Reputation system are now everywhere. I was googling a bit on an artist I like and I stumbled across the curve reproduced below. They state that The Artfacts.Net Artist Ranking is for information purposes only, and is not intended for trading purposes. The electronic chart is based on the data curr...
[Life Hack] Next Life Hack Event
There's gonna be a Life Hack session at Emerging Tech Conference by Danny O'Brien and Merlin Mann We'll take a whistle-stop tour through an amazing year in this exploding field: tracking apps that merge the geek's command-line power with GUI ease-of-use; the expansion of RSS and wiki techniques int...
[Research] Mogi Mogi Test
Mogi Mogi, the french game tested in Japan works pretty well. Here are few results (I am to lazy to translate it in english) they delivered at the FING (pdf, in french). I also found that this company is partly owned by france telecom. A propos des joueurs: Ce sont au départ des joueurs très occ...