Via wikipedia: Leadership by a group: In contrast to tolerating leadership as a position of authority, some highly successful organizations have adopted a pragmatic approach when they found that the role of boss costs too much in team performance. That is, in some situations, the maintenance of the...
[MyResrearch] Mobile Data Analysis
Interesting paper, though in french, from M. Zouinar, M. Relieu, G. Calvet and P. Salembier about a new methodology to analyze collaborative mobile activities and multimodality. Here it is about some PDA activity.The starting point is that current ethnological methods are not that adapted as depict...
Via ergoihm mailing list: les diagrammes de Gantt. En fait, la littérature intéressée par l'aspect humain de l'ordonnancement amène à penser que les diagrammes de Gantt (en 2D) permettent des reconnaissances de configurations perceptives assez poussées (ex.: les diagonales permettent de visualiser ...
[Prospective] Educational Semantic Web
A special issue of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education on The Educational Semantic Web, May 2004. All online (including PDFs). The Educational Semantic Web is a developing and futuristic vision. As such, it has many enthusiastic proponents and an equal number of sceptics. In this introduc...
[LifeHacks] Structured Procrastination
Via starhill, notes by John Perry about procrastination: the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important. This is the essence of what I call structured procrastination, an amazing strategy I hav...
[Tech] Cool projects in Ivrea
I always havea glance of what is going on at the Ivrea Interaction Institute. They do have cool projects... with nice names... 22 POP La Mia 500 Not-So-White Walls Mass Distraction Ninja TV Smart Skins Soft Interface Sonic Texting Tableportation Uncles Phone Audiograffiti Light Brix Collabolla Cre...
[VideoGames] Few misconceptions often found among computer game students
Via DIGRA: Below I list a few misconceptions often found among computer game students (and researchers I might add). These are not set in stone but are based on my own experience as a student, comments from other students, and supervising students: 1. There is no academic research in computer game...
[Research] The Combat Survivor Evader Locator
Via starhill, Boeing's Combat Survivor Evader Locator; The Combat Survivor Evader Locator (CSEL) communication system is more than just a hand-held radio. CSEL provides a complete system solution, including secure digital message communications, Global Positioning System (GPS), line-of sight (LOS) ...
[MyResearch] CatchBob Data Analysis
What we want to do is stated by Staging and Evaluating Public Performances as an Approach to CVE Research by Steve Benford, Mike Fraser, Gail Reynard, Boriana Koleva and Adam Drozd (The Mixed Reality Laboratory): System instrumentation and analysis of logs developers instrument the underlying CVE...
[Tech] my life hacks
I am not a programmer, those geek hacks are just meant to show my strategies to work more efficiently:- I put everything in text files, with this format: topicDATE.txt (example: for a meeting with pierre on june, 4th 2004 it is pierre06042004.txt) - easy to search (metadata are in the title) - easy...