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[TheWorld] Saint Etienne Design Biennale
It's a shame I'm gonna miss the Design Biennale in Saint Etienne, France. I already spotted some interesting elements but I won't find time to go there (even though I would like to say hello to my friends who live there). An interesting topic is the temporary cardboard habitation exhibit: ...
[Research] Context sensitive telephone
Building a context sensitive telephone: Some hopes and pitfalls for context sensitive computing (.pdf) by by Barry Brown and Rebecca Randell Although the idea of making technology more context aware is an alluringone, this seemingly simple move hides a great deal of complexity. Evensimple examples...
[Locative Media] New Vodafone's receiver Issue
The new issue of Vodafone's Receiver has been released. Content: Erkki Huhtamo: Hidden histories of mobile media Tim Clark: Mobile communications and the wireless internet – the Japanese experience Amparo Lasen: Affective technologies – emotions and mobile phones Mike Butcher: Rewind -fast forward...
[Research] HCI forgets about psychology
Interesting post by Rashmi about this fact: new ideas from psychology are hardly reaching HCI. A few decades ago, there was a rapid influx of new ideas from psychology into HCI. (...) Its like the HCI psychology folk have collective amnesia for research in the 10-15 years (...) Psychology has evolv...
[Video Game] Supported Non-Verbal Communication in EverQuest
Yes I just kissed a frog: Supported Non-Verbal Communication in EverQuest (.pdf) by Tommy Nordkvist. With the use of the ethnographical tool participant observation I have studied the mssive multi-player online game EverQuest. Through Erving Goffman’s descriptions on the importance of a well functi...
[Research] The role of space in socially distributed cognition
Very close to my domain is this publication: Perry, M., O'Hara, K., Spinelli, G. and Sharpe, B. (2003). The role of space in socially distributed cognition: some issues for cognitive engineering. 25th Annual meeting of the cognitive science society (Cogsci 2003), Boston, USA, 31 July - 2 August, 9...
[Research] Usage de la cognition spatiale pour localiser les lieux d'activité lors d'une enquête
Usage de la cognition spatiale pour localiser les lieux d'activité lors d'une enquête Origine - Destination par Etienne Girard. Ce mémoire cerne la problématique de la description qualitative de la localisation dâun lieu décrit en langage naturel. Câest par une approche cognitive quâest ...
[Space and Place] Office of the future, office of the past
On this picture, one can see my colleague Mr C. working in what some people can expect to be the office of the past (computerless). Others could expect it to be the office of the future (computer is so well integrated that you cannot see it). Well, the answer is simple: Mr. C. who is a real geek ha...
[Weird] Old board games catalog
A very cool old board game catalog at this url. ...