iMap iMap 3 is a data visualisation tool designed to map large amounts of latitude/longitude data (or US ZIPcodes). iMap imports data from databases or spreadsheets and maps it onto image or vector maps. Database queries can be used to map only a subset of the data or to filter the data for a certa...
[LifeHack] Mac program that shows all the images that people are looking at over the wireless link
Via sylvie noel: EtherPEG EtherPEG is a free program for the Macintosh that shows you all the JPEGs (and GIFs) going by on your network. EtherPEG was written at MacHack 2000 by Sam Bushell, Peter Bierman and Stuart Cheshire. EtherPEG works by capturing unencrypted TCP packets off your local networ...
[Locative Media] site-specific: a course on space/locative media
site_specific: SITEspecific is a class that will examine the notion of site as a space that is practiced or performed. Digital networks and wireless technologies are shifting the contemporary notion of urban place. As public and private, local and global are collapsed by the infiltration of portabl...
[Space and Place] Skateboarding versus Defensible space
I have always been amazed by the way urban planners try to re-model the city so that skateboarders cannot carry out their activities. I have to take picture of this urban struggle. A common way is that they place "metal discs in the joins of these makeshift skate ramps. These discs prevent a skateb...
[Space and Place] Defensible Space
Defensible space appears to be a real trend these days in urban settings. According to the Center for urban research and learning: Defensible space commonly refers to architectural and environmental design used to reduce criminality by increasing field of observation and ownership. When space is us...
[LifeHack] More on google scholar: vertical search engine on the move
Google Scholar is online since wednesday and already spread like a virus. The NYT has a paper about it. It's cool because people felt that I came out of the blue (me too). The engineer who led the project, Anurag Acharya, said the company had received broad cooperation from academic, scientific and...
[Research] What about google scholar?
Google scholar: Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, pr...
[Tech] Fishpong
Fishpong is a nice kind of roomware that aims at "stimulating informal computer-supported cooperative play (CSCP) in public spaces such as coffeehouses and cafés". It consists of a tabletop tangible user interface that allows users to control a fish-themed video game using magnetically tagged coffe...
[MyReseach] Location-awareness of others
"Knowing where the others are" is the underlying topic of my phd. That is why I did this quick brainstorm during the afternoon: where are my partners/buddies/lover/relatives/colleagues? place: home, work, shop, somebody else's place, third place, in transit or waiting (bus stop) position: infrast...
[Research] French Ubiquitous Computing Conference
UbiMob2005 is the french speaking Ubiquitous Computing Conference. After the 2004 edition which was held in Nice, this one is in Grenoble. ...