[Tech] Adaptative Design: from Citroën DS to apple ipod

Adaptive design paper in icon magazine Dan Hill explores the psychology of how we adapt and interact with technology. Is “adaptive design” – products that allow the user to modify, upgrade and customise them – better than products that can’t be altered? And is the iPod just too perfect? ...

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'You got tagged: The city as a playground! n Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Appliance Design (2AD), 11-13 May 2004, HP Labs, Bristol, UK. The ‘CitiTag’ project is focused on social experiences and group play in public spaces, based on the awareness of other peoples’ presence,...

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Via le progrès: Des îlônes pour découvrir la ville: Depuis mercredi soir, certains espaces de la ville sont mis en lumière par Noao. A ne rater sous aucun prétexte Avez-vous déjà entendu parler des îlônes ? Non ? Et pourtant Les îlônes, « espaces-temps repérés et investis dans la ville » par l'ense...

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[Research] New ericsson's "ON" release

The new "ON" (Ericsson's magazine) has been realeased. Even though it's less rocket science than Receiver (Vodafone's magazine), it is still interesting. You can see it a summary of the mobile trend. However, Ericsson seems to be followers compared to Vodafone. They appear to be more shy than recei...

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[Research] Navigation and Landmarks

Via social fiction, Topographic Landform Interpretation Experiment, A geo-referenced walking work at Racetrack Playa (May 15th, 2K4) Keywords: landform interpretation, navigation, locative media, database, walking art, cognitive maps, global positioning system, geographic information systems, art. ...

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[Space and Place] The end of La Courneuve

Yesterday, at 1.01pm (precisely), buildings in La Courneuve (close to Paris) was destroyed. In 22 seconds, those 156-meters long and 43-meters high vanished. Free pictures could be downloaded on La Courneuve website. ...

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[Prospective] Hidden dangers of Grey Matter

Interesting paper in the last issue of MacKinsley Quaterly about informal economy. The paper criticizes both thesis: the fact that gray market could create jobs and relieve social tensions AND the idea (claimed by academics) that will disappear of its own accord. Many companies around the world ope...

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[Research] Lancaster appears to be thriving for mobile research

According to Howard Rheingold in the feature, Lancaster is an hotspot with regard to mobile research: Lucy Suchman + Jyri Engstrom... It may be that R&D of the future will not involve inventing uses for media, but will lie in discovering what uses people put them to. It looks like many at Lancaster...

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[Weird] the onion's editor interview

Interesting interview of the onion's editor Carol Kolb. HB: Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnell once tried to describe the "fine line between clever and stupid"; you guys seem to have no problem staying on the side of the former, though. Is it hard to be consistent? Do you guys ever get negative feedback fr...

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[MyResearch] Cognition and orienting

Eccles, D. W., Walsh, S. E., & Ingledew, D. K. (2002). A grounded theory of expert cognition in orienteering. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 24, 68-88. The objective of this study was to gain an understanding of expert cognition in orienteering. The British orienteering squad was intervi...

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