This is the first remote control (wired though), designed by Dumont (Dumont Model RA 369 Remote Selector). "Photo courtesy of Jim Martin, Machesney Park, Illinois USA" ...
(Video Game) Working in Lyon
Today I work in Lyon in a video game company that design new entertainment projects. I am in charge of a small R&D consulting for them. The point is to transfer ideas from social/psychology and behavior research into sound guidelines that can help the games design. The environment is cool, it's loc...
[SocialSoft] Blog and SNS
I like Stuart Hensall's take on blog and social software. in his Manifesto For Social Networking Required My Blog is Better at Networking I know the humble blog has been held up as a social network many times. From experience my blog is much better than any of the SNS as a networking tool. One adv...
[Research] SOAR: a general cognitive architecture
SOAR is a general cognitive architecture for developing systems that exhibit intelligent behavior. Soar means different things to different people. Soar is used by AI researchers to construct integrated intelligent agents and by cognitive scientist for cognitive modeling. It can basically be consid...
[Space and Place] Critical Mass Bycicle Riders
(Via near near future), Critical Mass Bycicle Riders appears to be an interesting phenomenon... do they gather in Schelling Focal's points ??? It is close to the flash mob thing but it seems that the idea goes further. Critical Mass is often described as an 'unorganised coincidence'. It happens wh...
[Life Hacks] Life Hacks for any jobs
(via boingboing)This website presents a wide bunch of life hacks from various jobs. Cartographer: Mapmakers will often use copyright traps, bits of information in their maps that are purposefully wrong. They might label a body of water Lake Strongbad, for instance, and then examine the next edi...
[MyResearch] A better presence visualizer
Still playing with R, I ass Patrick's filter to strengthen the connections between the square that represent the path of CatchBob players. I now get this: ...
[TheWorld] Has the internet become indispensable?
Has the internet become indispensable? by D. Hoffman, T. Novak and A. Venkatesh (ACM registration required) is a paper about how the Internet modified our living habits. We seem to be in the midst of an Internet revolution and entering an era of enhanced digital connectivity. The pace of social cha...
[TheWorld] Euro Foo Camp might be cool
Euro Foo Camp seemed to have an interesting programme Better Living Through RSS - Brain Hacks - Size Matters: Large Format Cameras - Guerrilla Evangilism - Tell stories with maps - Blogging in Europe - Using a mobile phone to control the BBC^W^W people ...
[Locative Media] ISEA stuff
Isea Travelogue is a cool blog about ISEA: pictures, notes...I discovered the cool stuff Ben Russel did: * Spent the past few months interviewing archaeologists, designers, artists: mapping the space that emerged. * Mapping as an interesting cross media space: combined real and mediated * exploring...