The french video-game company In Fusio released a survey about players' trends and habits. The study has been carried ou on a sample of 400 mobile gamers asked about their playing behaviour. Summary of key findings: - 60% of those questioned would like to be a member of a mobile game community - Fe...
[TheWorld] Awfull Ergonomics
Yesterday the train was way too cold and I could not increase the temperature because of the awfull ergonomics of this: ...
[Tech] Ultimate Social Navigation on Amazon
Amazon.com improves his social navigation system. You can now see a new feature: " Customers who viewed this page ultimately bought: " with a list of things (with percentage ratings) related to what you are currently browsing.For instance, people who viewed the ipod 15gb page ultimately bought: 65%...
[Prospective] A mobile phone web different from the computer web?
Interesting paper in the International Herald Tribune about the reluctance of developers to make Web pages for mobile phones adhere to the same principles as those for computers. ...the proposal in March from a handful of mobile phone companies, including Nokia, to create an address for Web pages ...
[Tech] Nokia funds Mozilla Fundation
Via news.com: Nokia has funded a cell phone browser project at the Mozilla Foundation, breathing new life into the open-source effort once written off as Microsoft roadkill. Sources familiar with the deal this week confirmed that Nokia paid Mozilla to produce a cell phone browser based on the found...
Mapping the Landscape of Science
Katy Borner is Assistant Professor of Information Science at Indiana University School of Library and Information Science. She works on: data mining and information visualization techniques to map the structure and dynamics of scientific disciplines. Large amounts of, e.g., publication, patent, and...
[Weird] Spam Poetry round-up
Seen in the register: It hasn't escaped our notice that spam tsunamists are in the habit of finishing their missives with random collections of (often highly esoteric) words as part of their ongoing battle against the spam filter. But although these assemblages are designed purely to serve their da...
[ResearchWorld] Emergence de modes de travail plus collectifs dans la recherche en science humaine
Mon ancien prof de linguistique à Lyon, Jean Marie Hombert essaye de chambouler un peu le fonctionnement de la recherche en sciences humaines en France. je suis assz d'accord avec lui, lu dans le monde: Arrivé en 2002 à la tête du département des SHS du CNRS, le linguiste Jean-Marie Hombert a fait ...
[Research] CatchBob! Poster for EPFL I&C day
Here is our poster about CatchBob! for EPFL I&C research day. ...
[MyResearch] Connection between game design and cognitive psychology experiments design
I was wondering about connections between experiment design (in psychology) and game design. I was mixing my reflection I had when working for video game companies and what I am currently doing (setting up a mobile game experiment). This is quite close. When doing the experiment design, we have to ...