“Sort Drugs, Make Mates”: The use and meanings of mobiles in club culture, a talk by Karenza Moorepresented at the Digiplay seminar convened by Dr Nicola Green at University of Surrey This paper presents the preliminary findings of work on the place of the mobile phone within club culture in the No...
(Research) A case study of the development of a mobile game based on geolocation
ICTs and the engineering of encounters: A case study of the development of a mobile game based on the geolocation of terminals, a talk by Christian Licoppe, presented at the Digiplay seminar convened by Dr Nicola Green at University of Surrey By means of tests and user feedback, designers initially...
(Research) Geomapping orkut is nice
Clay Shirky in many to many shows a nice orkut geomapping. Red is friend, blue is friends of friends If you want to give a try, This script geographically displays the links between you and your Orkut friends. ...
[Research] Strategies used for directing and indicating
Gutwin, C. and Greenberg, S. (1999b). The Effects of Workspace Awareness Support on the Usability of Real-Time Distributed Groupware. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 6 (3), 243-281. Gutwin and Greenberg (1999b) compared peoples performance in two groups of pairs. The first g...
[Weird] Fresh insults
I already mentionned that mobog proposes crazy comments. Insults are also nice, especially when there is some kind of flame war. -bill you are a ignorant mother fuckin waste of a human. so shut the fuck up u piece of shit. - I'm ignorant? Me? Let's look at your keen sense of grammar in that last re...
[Research] Cell phones and social interactions
Via the feature Perhaps most people wouldn't want to use their phones to coordinate play with strangers. Nalini Kotamraju is a PhD candidate at UC Berkely, a sociologist specializing in the everyday uses of information technology. In her ethnographic studies with teenagers from the United Kingdom ...
[Space and Place] Mario World Virtual Place
Found there, good Nintendo Manuals.. You can also find interesting Mario 64 walktrough there. I definitely love ASCII maps. ...
[Research] Counting gesture to analyse collaboration
In order to analyse collaboration, one should find specific patterns in participants' interaction. I am still looking for a paradigm for counting gestures. Via Multimodality and Gestures in the Teachers Communication (Giorgio Merola and Isabella Poggi): A deictic gesture indicates something in the...
[Space and Place] Highway delirium
Nice drawing by Cyril Poisson ! This is an incredible imaginary highway map ! ...
[TheWorld] street cleaning maniac
It seems that fabien and I are not the only street cleaners manic. I found that funky pancake is also a fan ! Mine are here: ...