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[Space and Place] Tired of virtually capturing flags?
ProjectZ seems to have cool projects: After long hours playing Unreal Tournament at LAN parties, PZ members were tiring of virtually Capturing the Flag, so we decided to take it into the real world. The idea was to head up to the woods near to c0ld-cell's house, set up some bases, and play, but all...
[Event] NotCon04 stuff
NotCon'04 conference was held yesterday. This wiki proposes stuff about this: IRC logs, worst blogposts... About lifehacks, notes taken by cubic garden: Interetsing talk looking at peoples (supergeek) desktops. Got Paul fords, Google geek, Eric thingys, etc. Getting into why we should use command l...
[Research] Galileo Project looking for app ideas !
Via the register, Galileo (european GPS) is looking for application ideas: The GALILEO project, Europe's satellite radio navigation programme, launched its second call for research proposals yesterday (Wednesday). In this round of proposals, the European Commission says the Joint Undertaking is loo...
[Research] Weak statistics in research
the economist about "what is published in scientific journals may not be as true as it should be". SCIENTIFIC and medical journals, with their august panels of peer reviewers and fact checkers, are not the sort of places many mistakes are to be expected. Yet Emili García-Berthou and Carles Alcaraz,...
[Research] Tools for Interface Prototyping
FlashMultimedia builde Snagit Revolution realbasic Evoleon Altia Trolltech rapid Wapaka Windev Win Design ...
[Research] GPS, location and use modelling
Using GPS to Learn Significant Locations and Predict Movement Across Multiple Users by Daniel Ashbrook and Thad Starner. Wearable computers have the potential to act as intelligent agents in everyday life and assist the user in a variety of tasks, using context to determine how to act. Location is ...
[Weird] My odd interests
This times interests of pasta and vinegar (weird stuff categories, THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT RESEARCH):- city cleaning machine - pictures of dirty appartment - communist typography - different types of pavement - tv shopping ...
[Space and Place] kid drawing of continents
Nice drawing from a 7-years old kid, taken from Mécanisme de représentation mentale des espaces dinformation et interfaces floues. This picture was meant to illustrate the fuzzy representation we have of continents. I like this drawing: ...
[Research] Use of games in HCI
Interesting point in "Towards Augmented Reality Gaming" about the use of games in HCI. This called xploring New concepts through games: Computer gaming provides a unique prototyping arena for human-computer interactions. Due to the entertaining nature of the gaming interactions, users are willing ...