I sketched a mindmap about epistemological issues about my phd, just as a quick remainder. ...
[Locative Media] Why geo-annotating location?
The blog Future Now dealt with the use of geotagging. I have always been amazed by this topic, especially with regard to how people will use it. There are many projects like Urban Tapestries, GeoNotes, Mauro's projects... The author proposes a kind of typology of geotagging uses (listen mauro!): Th...
[Space and Place] About tubes
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[Video Games] Moving into serious games
Smart insights in Getting Serious About New Opportunities: On Game Developers And The 'Serious Gaming' Market", a gamasutra paper about new contents and methods for serious games development. Let's face it, the games business isn't all fun and games, because sometimes the business of making games i...
[Tech] Is data metadata or is metadata data?
Interesting account in the journal of hyperlinked organization about the fact that all data is metadata (contents are label). There used to be a difference between data and metadata. Data was the suitcase and metadata was the name tag on it. Data was the folder and metadata was its label. Data was ...
[Research] Workshop about Location Awareness (Technical)
Loca2005 is an International Workshop about location and context awareness. It will happen in Munich, Germany, May 12-13, 2005 in cooperation with Pervasive 2005 The goal of this workshop is to address and discuss the technical challenges, ideas, views, and research results in sensing, fusing and d...
[Space and Place] A chinese mac donalds in paris
Seen in Paris, France; quite a typical french restaurant, isn't it? ...
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[Space and Place] A sprawl dictionnary: sprawl dark semantic
Dolores Hayden from Yale School of Architecture (and her students) coined lots of interesting terms to name suburban features (quotes taken here): . "The town's zoning code was so convoluted nobody could read it," she recalled. "After a while I got to see that a lot of it was designed to frustrate...
[Research] HCI/CSCW and theories
Reading a review of Dourish's 'Where The Action Is" by M. Chalmers, I stumbled across this quote: "In our field, theory is like the public library. If asked, most of us would say that we are glad that it is around - but fea of us actually go there". It is actually what I feel, not because I do bett...