Chris now displays his current location (+ location history) on hiy blog thanks to a nice hack involving horrible acronyms involving the letter 'g' like GPS or GSM . mmmh I 'm joking, it's actually very smart and simple: The setup is this - Pretec BluetoothGPS (that also has a nifty data logger, wh...
[Research] Thursday Workshop
Here is the outline of our workshop about Spatial Awareness in Collaboration and Group Interaction: 1. Introduction to the topic of Spatial/Context Awareness and Collaboration by Mike Sharples 20minutes 2. Paper presentation (7 papers, 5minutes for each) 45 minutes 3. Activity: context awareness...
[Research] My slides for the workshop about spatial awareness
Here are my slides for the thursday workshop about spatial awareness and collaborative interactions/cognition. ...
[Weird] The Simspons turned to be true: tomacco
Via fab, it seems that reality has imitated "The Simpsons." Now a "Simpsons" fan in Oregon has crossed a tomato plant with a tobacco plant to create a new bit of weirdo flora he calls a tomacco (pronounced tuh-MACK-o). His inspiration: a 1999 episode of "The Simpsons" in which Homer gets rich by cr...
[Weird] Dog thong to prevent from gassy discharges
The dogone seems really appealing! The Dogone - Dog Gas Neutralizing Pad is a comfortable and least intrusive means for deodorizing gassy discharges in a thong design. This will eliminate pet odors and dog odors from flatus or flatulence. Uses our famous activated charcoal cloth (washable and reusa...
[Prospective] Which model to create and support innovation?
Interesting new debate in France: a think tank-like mission lead by J.L. Beffa (CEO of Saint Gobain) was asked by the French government to think about different way to create and support innovation. They published a report in which they promote the japanese and scandinavian models rather than the a...
[Research] Gapidraw: a cross platform tool for mobile game development
Gapidraw is a cross platform tool for mobile game development (on various devices like Palm, Symbian and Windows Mobile). It's done by Develant Technologies AB in Sweden. It is actually a joint venture between the IT University of Göteborg and other persons. Evaluation version could be downloaded h...
[Space and Place] Collaborative Photography in a Rio Favela
What a nice project! The author bought 20 camera and gave them to kids in Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio. The webiste shows the picture they took. Cheap collaborative photography! I was thinking about how much the kids enjoyed using my camera, and wouldn't it be interesting to see what they ph...
[Space and Place] Odd architecture cluster in Geneva
In Geneva, this area is called "Les Schtroumpfs". It it a bit odd, some building are Gaudi like, others rather reminds me some kind of weird mashup. ...
[Research] Coordination Theories
Few random notes:Malone and Crowston [1994] were the first to propose an interdisciplinary science of coordination, as coordination problems are also addressed, for example, in Computer Science. They claim the existence of dependencies between activities or entities. The goal of coordination is to ...