Wolves, football and ambient computing: Facilitating collaboration in problem solving systems through the study of human and animal groups by David W. Eccles (Florida State University) and Paul T. Groth (University of Southampton) I'm waiting where we met last time: Exploring everyday positioning...
[Research] Interesting conference: DIS 2004
DIS 2004 seems appealing: Designing Interactive Systems 2004: "A venue for serious reflection on the practice of designing interactive systems, exploring the aesthetic, social and cultural dimensions of new technologies". But why there is not so many conferences on the COGNITIVE dimensions of new t...
[Cuisine] Recette riz + sauce de mirweis
More or less:Laisser reposer le riz la veille dans un saladier, l'essorer le laisser cuire 2 minute a couvercle presque ferme le lendemain, avec juste assez deau pour recouvrir le riz (vraiment pas plus que la masse de riz) Dans la poele - emincer et faire revenir 1 oignon, bien doré - sel - mettre...
[Weird] Reader's Digest Award for Mirweis!
My friend Mirweis has finally been awarded by the Reader's Digest. This is of course useless, crappy and totally uninteresting. That is the reason why it is duct-taped on my board... ...
[MyResearch] Agent Based Modeling
Notes taken from SWARM Tutorial: An agent is the colloquial term for pretty much any component in an ABM that has extent. Typically agents are motivated to do something, but sometimes other objects in a simulation will also be called "agents". Agents have: - Internal data representations (memory or...
[LifeHacks] Misuse desktop applications in one's personal life
I miss this interesting post from Nigritude Ultramarine . Almost every one of my friends has, at one point or another, made at least one Excel spreadsheet to document some arcane aspect of their lives. The number of consecutive sunny days, the types and prices of the cups of coffee they drink, or j...
[LifeHacks] More life hacks
Other people describe their life hacks here: - when I find a new piece of info online ask myself "do I need to read this, bookmark this, research this, add it to my aggregator, contact this author, pass it on, or something else?" and then DO that - jam all news into the rss aggregator - I keep a p...
[Game] Tyranid Attack still a cool boardgame
I am a great fan of old games workshop board games like Space Hulk or Tyranid Attack. I should bring it back on the table :) ...
[Blog] Blogposts Title Ergonomics
Sometimes I am pissed by the titles put by people for their blogposts. It is difficult to get what I can get if I click on it. This is an interesting side-effect of using an aggregator: you have to be careful with your title: it should be meaningful and appealing from various point of view... That ...
[Prospective] Yet Another Silicon Valley-Based Thing
Clustering innovative institutions is always based on the same model: Silicon Valley... In France, the minister of economy wants to extend the success of Crolles 2 (where Philips, Motorola and ST Microelectronics invested $1,4bn) to other areas. I am not sure the Silicon Valley model could be exten...