[Prospective] Voicemail extinction?

The Feature has a post about the decrease in the voicemail feature of mobile phones. Â Although society is now becoming accustomed to time shifting entertainment, it is becoming less tolerant of doing the same with communication. Voice is still the killer application on mobile phones but, especial...

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[Research] Research about pokemon and children's culture

I stumbled across this research projects which I found appealing: POKÉMON: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Children’s Global Media Culture. The Pokémon project examined the rise and fall of one of Japan’s most profitable and popular exports. (...) In 1999, Professor Joseph Tobin of the University of...

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[Prospective] Closer to Johnny Mnemonic Jones' than ever

In Johnny Mnemonic (William Gibson's short story, shot in a movie by Robert Longo, with a pre-matrix Keanu Reeves) there was this nice dolphin called Jones: He was more than a dolphin, but from another dolphin's point of view he might have seemed like something less. I watched him swirling sluggis...

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[Locative Media] The added value of pointing: geovector

It's good to see enbodiment in computer science. Relying on deictic acts is an interesting way to interact with objects. This is the point of geovector. They havedeveloped "a number of applications that show the potential and actual benefits of pointing in real world situations." Among all the appl...

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[Locative Media] Conqwest: urban mobile game

Conqwest: More than a hundred players and phones, 5-meter tall giant inflatable animals designed by an artist in the UK, $5000 prizes, semacodes nodes on billboards, on buses, and on a taxi navigating the streets. It's an urban mobile treasure hunt, with 5 teams from local high schools racing to be...

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[Space and Place] Monday Dump Special

I decided to start a new collection of pictures: every monday, close to where I live, there are always a bunch of crappy stuff down the streets. I am now going to take picture of those every monday. ...

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[Research] Maptribe, at last

Finally, Mauro set up a webpage about his project. It is called Maptribe, a location-based service to support collaborative learning of urban studies students. ...

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[Research] Context/Location in Ubicomp according to Paul Dourish

Quotes taken from notes about Paul Dourish's lecture (10/25/2004): Dourish also discussed his work on context, which largely involve pointing out that context is a lot more complicated than “context-aware” application designers seem to think. Definitions of context vary, but they always include loc...

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[Research] Paper ideas for CSCL

I had a short discussion with Pierre about our short paper for CSCL 2005. Since we don't have so much data to propose, we will rather present some concepts and ideas that ground our projects at the lab. Here is the outline: Introduction: specifying that we are not interested in addressing learning...

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