I like this modified tennis field. It is actually a project called "Escape to Quit" by Jacques Julien and Gilles Grand. ...
[Work] CSCW course
Today, I worked on the slides for the course about Computer Supported Cooperative Work I am going to give with Pierre. I came up with this simple logo and did some research about the projects we want the students to carry out. I now need to set up the web portal/platform to support the course. w...
[Research] Few notes about Activity Theory
According to Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research, there seems to be three theoretical generations in the evolution of activity theory. The first generation, centered around Vygotsky, created the idea of mediation. The second generation of activity theory derived its inspirat...
[Research] Analysing players' behavior in CatchBob
Thomas pointed me on this interesting thesis. It is not actually dealing with the same research question as mine but I proposed a smart methdology to analyse data collected from the interaction between a player and a video game: contextual analyses, automatic analyses of locomotion, what is an atom...
[Weird] Accidental Re-examination of a system
I really like this kind of story, as told by MK: Some cowboys left some guitars behind in Hawaii in about 1792, and the result was Hawaiian Slack Key guitar playing. The cowboys didn't leave behind any instructions on how to tune the guitars, so each person who picked up a guitar and taught themsel...
[Tech] Lenigradskoje Optiko Mechanitscheskoje Objedinenie
"Lenigradskoje Optiko Mechanitscheskoje Objedinenie" = LOMO.The no. 1 tool of the lomographer - the Lomo LC-A is made by Lomo Optics, Inc.* in St. Petersburg where Prof. Radionov has developed the special 32 mm "glass eye" used in the Lomo... a lomographer is a photographer who uses a LOMO camera! ...
[Research] More about CatchBob!
Finally, CatchBob has a webpage! Feel free to browse :) ...
[MyResearch] Mixed Evaluation Method of Collaboration
Last week, at the CSCL symposium, I attended an interesting presentation by Alejandra Martinez about evaluating collaboration. She showed this table Method requirements: - integrate context................ethnographical data (questionnaire, observation, focus groups...) - study of real situation......
[Research] Mobile Research/Design Methods
Well, thank you Jeff for this very informative summary of mobile research/design methods! It is actually a comparison of methods for understanding mobile behavior to inform technology design: Case Studies, Diary Studies, Cultural Probes, Ethnography, Field Study (natural or artificial settings), In...
[Research] Reference about context awareness
Relevant research paper: >Exploiting Space and Location as a Design Framework for Interactive Mobile Systems by ALAN DIX and TOM RODDEN, NIGEL DAVIES, JONATHAN TREVOR, ADRIAN FRIDAY, and KEVIN PALFREYMAN. This article considers the importance of context in mobile systems. It considers a range of co...