Mobiquitous: International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems, August 22-26, 2004 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The conference seems rather technical than user-centered but it could be of interest to have a glance at the trends. For instance the panels (obvisouly more 'high level') called ...
[Research] rss file listing my research readings
I added a link on the right menu that allows to aggregate to my research reading feed (RSS). This RSS file is just a list extracted from my bibtex manager (which is great: bibdesk). ...
[LocativeMedia] One Block Radius: a psychogeographic survey
One Block Radius "plays with this idea of scale, aiming to zoom in and physically data-mine the tiny area for the amount of information one would normally find in a guide book for an entire city. This feature-rich urban record will include personal perspectives from diverse sources such as city wor...
[Space and Place] Street Talk: happening event
Street Talk: An Urban Computing Happening, Friday 16 July 2004 in Berkeley. The programme is great with lots of interesting speaker (Anne Galloway, Howard Rheingold, Antony Townsend...). Street Talk is a one day event to be held at Intel Research Berkeley focused on understand how the rapidly emerg...
[Space and Place] Alone on a moo
Gosh I am alone on Tecfamoo: ...
[VideoGames] Multiplayer Video Games Complicated Communications
Halloran, J., Fitzpatrick, G., Rogers, Y. and Marshall, P. (2004) Does it matter if you don't know who's talking? Multiplayer gaming with voiceover IP. To appear in Proceedings of CHI 2004. Voiceover IP (VoIP) now makes it possible for people in distributed online multiplayer games to talk to each ...
[Research] Group Behavior in Virtual Reality
This Jolanda Tromp seems interesting. Se works on "the development of structured methods to collect quantitative and qualitative usability evaluation data for novel artefacts. Involved in developing methods for rapid usability assessment of new technologies. Research involves task analysis, user re...
[Prospective] A remote control for your life
A bit update but still interesting, "A remote control for your life" by Charles Mann in Technology Review (subscription needed). The plan will go into gear this summer, when DoCoMo introduces a new and radically more versatile type of phone. Like a regular cell phone, it will make and receive telep...
[Space and Place] Old-school Monorail
The ALWEG monorail system is one of the coolest in the world! Cool pictures on this website. ...
[Weird] Recycle! turn elephant shit into paper
The Millenium Elephant Foundation and Maximus, a Sri Lankan company, have a relatively nice project: ...a little dung goes a long, long way, as elephant waste is recycled and turned into sheets of paper. A factory on-site produces hand-made paper to any thickness and a variety of colors... ...