Analysing and evaluating mobile applications require some visualisations. How to depict mobile devices' users behavior is s question researchers have to address. Jeff Axup, Nicola Balwell and Stephen Viller proposes 2 kinds of visualisations: 1. an information flow chart 2. a contextual information...
[Research] Position or place?
Jeffrey Hightower, "From Position to Place," (.pdf) in Proceedings of The 2003 Workshop on Location-Aware Computing, pp. 10-12, Oct. 2003. Emerging proactive applications want to reason about “place”, not coordinates. Existing systems rely on manually defining places which, while useful, does not ...
[Space and Place] A week end in Geneva
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[Space and Place] Programming for cities
(via), Programming for cities: workshop about code and architecture/urban stuff in Amsterdam "Programming for Cities" is a workshop that reinforces a long existing link between code and architecture. Many fine buildings can be reduced to a few lines of code, and a quick glance backward in time sho...
[Prospective] Intellectual property management firm
Nathan Myhrvold runs a firm that doesn't make anything,but it's hoarding the key to a new business age: intellectual property ./p> But spinning new ideas is only a small part of the plan. Sources familiar with Myhrvold's strategy say that he has raised $350 million from some of the largest companie...
[Culture] L.F. Céline, Capitaine Haddock et les insultes
Une histoire qui vient de chronicart à propos d'un livre (Céline, Hergé et l’affaire Haddock, éditions Ecriture) Quelle est la provenance de la bordée d’injures suivante ? "Mataf ! Sorcier ! Albanais ! Joueur de boules ! Marchands de cithares, pompiers nanterrois !". Et celle-ci ? "Vampires des cav...
[Culture] New Appleseed movie
Appleseed is back, not an on OAV like 15 years ago but a movie. I am a great fan of Masamune Shirow and I think I might prefer Appleseed to Ghost in the Shell. Shirow is really a great designer! ...
[Research] Conferences about CSCW, mobile HCI...
The mobility Studio has an impressive list of conferences where we (well Mauro, Fab and myself) should submit papers. i spotted a few one for catchbob: Interact 2005 - Tenth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (Deadline 31 January, 2005. Full papers, tutorials, workshop...
[Research] Experimental psychology or ethnography in CSCW?
Though a bit old (1993), the paper "Mixing oil and water? Ethnography versus Experimental Psychology in the study of computer-mediated communication" (by Monk, A., Nardi, B., Gilbert, N., Mantei, M., McCarthy, J.) still adresses a very relevant topic. It was actually a panel discussion during Inter...
[Artwork] Dana Wyse's pills
I like Dana Wyse's collection of pills, especially the "don't have ugly children" :) And her "celebrity sperm" is also very interesting (one ounce of fresh sperm from Gerry Adams, Al Gore, Bill Gates, Tom Cruise, Michail Gorbachev, Martin Amis and 100 other important men) . When and how did you in...