HEREgame is a location based game. The website does not seems a lot informative... Some cool pictures anyway attests that it might be a spatial annotation software. ...
[Locative Media] this list of locative media is flat coz I'm lazy
Compiled the one from paul and elastic space and regine (by Mjriam Struppeck actually). I had no time to put the link, I feel sorry about that. Just wanted to have a flat alphabetical list to be printed on the fly... 34 North 118 West/Active Campus/Altavistas/Annotate space/Annotated Earth/Area Cod...
[Tech] How aggregation changes web navigation
The digital web magazine has a compelling paper about how "Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content". They present a "distributed navigation view" opposed to the previous "on-site navigation view" (“home page as the starting point” paradigm): users navigate completely outside t...
[Space and Place] I really like this kind of "poster"
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[Research] Call for paper: ‘Space, place and technology: human presence in mediated experiences’
Psychnology Journal invites submissions on the following theme: ‘Space, place and technology: human presence in mediated experiences’. The purpose of this special issue is to explore the modification in human experience that are brought about by new technologies. In particular, it is increasingly a...
[VideoGames] Lack of innovation in mobile games
I fully agree with Greg Costikiyan's column in Gamasutra about mobile games. He claims that business models killed innovation, even though there are strong technological potential (presence-detection, lbs...). I got interested in mobile games five years ago, when cell phones capable of supporting g...
[Research] Design requirements for location aware community systems
Paper presented at CSCW 2004: Putting Systems into Place: A Study of Design Requirements for Location-Aware Community Systems by Samer Karam, Sukeshini A. Grandhi, Quentin Jones, Loren Terveen and Steve Whittaker. What's is funny here is that they look at supporting lcoation-awareness in different ...
[Space and Place] GeoSim: geopolitical processes simulation
GeoSim is "n agent-based computational environment that simulates geopolitical processes". The output of a GeoSim simulation exhibiting that rebelions in weak states and mountainous area are more frequent than elsewhere: ...
[Locative Media] IFTF Geoweb experiment in the Feature
Howard Rheingold briefly describes some concept about the geoweb in the Feature as well as telling us the story of geo-freak Mike Liebhold. It also deals with standards to be chosen for the geoweb. At the beginning of the two-day Geoweb and Deep Place Fall Exchange organized by the Institute for th...
[Weird] Ugly Tools for women
Freelax (the name is I think a bit disconnected to the reality) is new tool to "allow women to pee standing". It is ugly of course: It seems that there is a competitor which is called "TravelMate™ non-invasive urinary devices" with the same purpose: I really like this kind of quotes. When market...