Some people put 1500sq ft of Aluminum Foil, 5 rolls of double sided tape on their boss' office when he was on vacation: ...
[Reserach] Another FOAF event: foaf camp in the NL
A FOAF camp is scheduled on 9-20th August 2004, Campus UTwente, The Netherlands. The idea is: "Two days of talking, hacking, socializing and making FOAF better". Not a formal congference-like, much mire hacking-con like. ...
[MyResearch] Replay tools in video games
I am entering the very field of video games replay tool so that I can extract idea for my own Interaction Analysis in CatchBob!. (which btw has now a google ranking of 67). Here is BWchart meant to analyse the list of actions from Starcraft and Warcraft. Thos games seems to have a community interes...
[Space and Place] Spatial Organization in Video game companies
A paper about communication and office organization in video game companies. Very informative. If you only have one person per office, it's easy for them to concentrate, but not likely that they will communicate. If you have too many people per office, a lot of communication will happen, but no act...
[The World] Fungus that eat ants
Totally unrelated with all my stuff, I stumbled across the interesting fact: ants can get fungal infections, which literally eat them alive. You can read here that the Texas Farm Bureau attempted to use one type of fungus to control Red Imported Fire Ants. ...
[Research] Google on your Goggles?
Howard Rheingold in the feature about cool heads-up display. Heads-up displays, first invented for fighter aircraft more than a decade ago, have morphed into "augmented reality" goggles that project an informational overlay over the real world as the goggle-wearer navigates through it. Information ...
[Research] FOAF/Semantic Web event in September?
With Roby, we are considering writing something about our french web aggregator rss4you for this FOAF/Semantic Web Workshop. This workshop on FOAF, social networking and the Semantic Web provides a first chance to discuss the unusual combination of perspectives - academic and scientific, engineerin...
[MyResearch] Collaborative Virtual Environment Interactions' Analysis
Users' interactions with the environment (virtual, mobile...) foster the production of a wide range of data. Thanks to multi-user technologies, complex interactions occur. It is possible to aggregate the interaction data of the logfiles into a set of high-level of indicators. This is useful for env...
[Weird] Tablet and pills as cutting edge interfaces
I like the pills seen as button of the future. Pressing a pill on a tablet offer a great feedback, a cool haptic feeling. Well it's not april fool day but I am still in the "joke"mode. ...
[Weird] Ultra badly drawn planes
I am still in the process of learning how to correctly draw planes. At the moment, I do suck a lot, judging from these crappy drawings made this morning in the train: ...