The RAND has an interesting new report entitled "Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis" (by Robert J. Lempert, Steven Popper, and Steven C. Bankes). The checkered history of predicting the future—e.g., "Man will never fly"—has dissuaded policyma...
[Space and Place] Crane pornography in Barcelona
If you happen to be -like me- a fan of crane pornography, Barcelona offers an interesting opportunity to discover how crane and monuments can be mixed into a nice piece of art: ...
[Space and Place] Week end in Barcelona
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[Research] CatchBob running on my mac!
CatchBob now runs on my ibook! ...
[Research] /. discussion about game stats
There is currently a nice discussion on slashdot (as far as discussion can be nice on slashdot) about the usage of video game stats. I am interested in them because it can be useful for players' behavior analysis (to some extent). "In almost every new multi-player game there is a way of keeping sta...
[Weird] Impressive website for vintage stuff
TICK TOCK TOYS is a wonderful archive of vintage stuff (food, supermarket, toys) compiled by Dan Goodsell. My favorite is definitely this one. It's taken from a book about kids' parks that presents different "creative unit" devoted for children amusement. ...
[Weird] Lego HiFi
I just sumbled across this nice lego hifi ...
[Research] Learning from Games and HCI
Dyck, J., Pinelle, D., et al. Learning from Games: Hci Design Innovations in Entertainment Software. in Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2003, 2003. (.pdf) Computer games are one of the most successful application domains in the history of interactive systems. This success has come despite the fac...
[Research] Workshop about colocated collaboration evaluation
An interesting CSCW workshop about colocated collaboration evaluation was set during CSCW 2004 in Chicago. The paper are avalailable here. I hope they will put the folllow up as well. One of the major challenges researchers in this area face is the difficulty of assessing the impact that the techno...
[LifeHack] Updated favorite mac os x software
This is just an update of my previous post. Quicksilver : application launcher. ecto: blog interface. Transmit: ftp client. bibdesk: bibtex managing tool (bibliography). subethaedit/: txt editor rendezvous enabled. NetNewsWire: RSS/RDF aggregator. Mudwalker: a MOO client. Proteus: instant messagin...