Here is my elephant paths from home to work (the circled area) plus from work to cafeteria (the dead-ends). As defined by people on this website: "Elephant path is a name for a path that is formed in space by people making their own paths and shortcuts; it is an unofficial route. Elephant path is a...
[LocativeMedia] Asphalt Game: a locative media used as a research probe
Asphalt Games is a locative media game used as a methodological experiment in producing a rich environment for community engagement and social research. As part of the game, players generate documentation and commentary that traces their paths through the game - and the city. Different views o...
[Research] Nice visualization I want to use
I really like this tobii visualization that shows where people looks at on a webpage. I would like to use it as a layer on the map of epfl where we set up our CatchBob! experiments. It could show where players went. ...
[MyResearch] Distributed Cognitive System Analysis
Ioannidou I. & Dimitracopoulou A. (2004). Young Children Collaborating to use Maps during Technology based Distributed Learning Activities. In proceedings of 6th International Conference of Mathematics Teaching, October 2003, Volos, Greece. In this paper, the authors describes how they analyzed a d...
[Researc] NATO research
NATO is of course doing research about location technologies and warfare... I am NOT into this war stuff.RTO-MP-093 Emerging Military Capabilities Enabled by Advances in Navigation Sensors: This symposium was organised to bring together experts in the field of navigation sensors and integration tec...
[Space and Place] Ship Control Board
This picture depicts the control board of an Alstom vessel. It provides ships with Dynamic Positioning, which is quite expensive especially if you want to add positioning capabilities to your windsurf. But the design is interesting. It is also funny to notice that those colors are the same as the t...
[Research] Ontology-based queries
Just came back from the lab seminar this morning: Logics for Information Modelling and Access -- or -- How to Use an Ontology" by Prof. Enrico Franconi (from Free University of Bozen-Bolzano). My notes are here In the talk I will first argue that good conceptual modelling and ontology design is req...
[Weird] A foldable famicom
At the Papercraft Factory, you can find foldable paper stuff like this cool Nintendo Famicom: ...
[Space and Place] Semantic Earth
Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology (SWEET) by the NASA: This project provides a common semantic framework for various Earth science initiatives. The semantic web is a transformation of the existing web that will enable software programs, applications, and agents to find meaning an...
[Research] Using While Moving: human computer interaction issues
A valuable paper: Using While Moving: HCI Issues in Fieldwork Environments by JASON PASCOE, NICK RYAN, and DAVID MORSE (University of Kent at Canterbury) Using while moving is the basic ability fieldwork users require of a mobile computer system. These users come from a wide range of backgrounds ...