Yesterday I went to a photo museum and there were nice pictures of cities destroyed by the war. I am always impressed by this. I tried to find pictures in the same line and it reminded me the one of Dresden after the war. It is amazing. The last one is definitely my favorite, I cannot find the auth...
[Weird] About shoplifting best practices
Fab pointed me this amazingly interesting resource about shoplifting research and best practices. It seems that they did not find anything so far. But they do have great ambitions: "A list of Best Practices for Theft Offenders is being established. It should be concluded by the end of January 2004....
[Life HAcks] How to do a mindmap
These days, I am trying to figure out the global picture of my phd, that's why I am into napkin sketches and mind maps. I found this short tutorial on the web. Here are the rules: Mind mapping (or concept mapping) involves writing down a central idea and thinking up new and related ideas which radi...
[Research] News from our workshop
We had a nice workshop, here are few pictures of what people designed. I am really happy that the fast prototyping activity fostered interesting discussions between participants. The main lesson of this workshop is that finding a collaborative context-dependent task is obviously hard. People always...
[Life Hacks] Napkin Sketch Tips
I often use napkin to draw sketches but I am an awfull drawer. That's why I turned myself to this summary of Napkin Sketches 101 written by Don Moyer in 360 1. Realize ugly is beautiful. Crude, ugly and wobbly are okay. If the idea captured is valid, youll have time later to make it beautiful....
[Research] Notes about Mutual intelligibility
In the context of collaborative interaction analysis, we have to deal with our team-mates share the context in which they carry out their joint activity. Collaboration indeed requires intersubjectivity: the understanding of another person depends on the assumptions the observer can make about wha...
[Space and Place] Visualizing city pollution
Cities of Lyon and Grenoble (France) are using visualization algorithms to depicts the city pollution. This picture shows Grenoble azote pollution. ...
[Propsective] Is Europe the Future?
There seems to be a pattern here. Yesterday, I was reading Richard Florida's Creative Class War in Washington Monthly. His point is that the current USA policy (restricting VISA for immigrants, the war on terror...) makes other nations become more attractive to mobile immigrant talents (the so-call...
[Space and Place] A VCR down the streets
This morning I found this VCR gently put on this small table near the roundabout close to my appartment. Perhaps it has been used during the night by angry hobos trying to feel the pulse of a video tape without any display tool... ...
[MyResearch] Well I think this is my phd research plan
I finished writing my phd research plan, it is here (.pdf). The provisional title is Analysing the Impacts of Location-Awareness on Mobile Collaboration Location-based services recently happened to be one of the new cutting edge technology in Computer Supported Cooperative Work. This project focuse...