Some people hates on-screen logos. They are not alone as stated by the BBC annual report: Nick Higham: there is something that annoys a lot of people about the new digital channels and that is that they always have this little logo in the corner, telling you what you are watching and sometimes gett...
[Prospective] The 21st Century at Work
Another RAND Corp report worth to check: The 21st Century at Work:Forces Shaping the Future Workforce and Workplace in the United States by Lynn A. Karoly, Constantijn W. A. Panis. Chapter 3 (Chapter Three:THE INFORMATION AGE AND BEYOND: THE REACH OF TECHNOLOGY) and 5 (IMPLICATIONS FOR WORK IN THE ...
[Space and Place] A recurent pattern in street art
Priority Mail Sticker appears to be recurent street stickers you can find in lots of country (I saw one in Lausanne, Switzerland this morning). The following one has been found on found magazine. ...
[TheWorld] A GI Joe-like situation
GI Joe according to : G.I. Joe is a popular cartoon television show that ran in the 1980s. The basic premise being good vs.evil, GI Joe is America's highly capable branch of military whose purpose is to defend America and the world against enemy attack and all other evils, their main adversary bein...
[MyResearch] Study about Understanding Virtual Team Development
Understanding Virtual Team Development: An Interpretive Study by Suprateek Sarker and Sundeep Sahay. In this paper, we develop an understanding of how virtual teams develop over time by inductively studying communication transactions of 12 United States-Canadian student virtual teams involved in IS...
[MyResearch] Finding a task for a locative media experiment
I am trying to figure out a task/scenario for a locative media experiment. The PLAYLab has an interesting approach: We have a rigourously theoretical framework, as well as a speculative and design oriented appraoch when designing gaming applications. Observations of live role-playing games provide ...
[Space and Place] Technology to reach higher heights
This 'hélépole' is a nice device created to make information circulate through paris. 6 meters high, it allows to deliver cool messages to heigher location. ...
[Research] Accuracy and Time of location curve
Found here, this depicts the relation between accuracy and time of location. It shows that accuracy and timeliness have an impact on the sensitivity of the location information. ...
[VideoGame] A GPS Poker Game
It seems that I am in a strange mood today, posting lots of stuff about ugly mobile games. There is a GPS-based poker game: GeoPoker is a GPS game in which players try to assemble the best poker hand by being the first to find a moving container holding a GeoPoker log. Each time the container is f...
[VideoGames] Already retro wireless games
Wireless games are not that old, but there already are nice retro-games (I mean with old-season interface, black'n white with a poor menu interface). I am joking here but it seems that video game companies missed the train: they don't perceive the added values of cell-phones: a mobile tool with: -...