Some people already elaborated on social proxy. Mirweis and me preferred the social firewall thing. The social proxy is "a visualization widget that provides cues about the presence and activity of participants in an online conversation system". So what? The social firewall is just the digital equi...
Workshop about Spatial Positioning, Cognition and Collaboration
In the context of the Kaleidoscope Conference about CSCL in Lausanne in October 2004, we are organizing a workshop about spatial positioning in mobile collaboration (description hereafter). It aims to study the relationships between space, collaborative problem solving and cognition in group. It wi...
[Weird] Redesign Gmail
Since it's the trend to redesign google, I think re-designing something that does not already exist is definetely the next step. I am working on re-designing G-mail. Of course, another trend is bad drawings and I am one of the baddest drawer round here. Therefore, I come up with a badly redesigned ...
[Space and Place] Viaduc de Millau: impressive
Pictures taken from Le Viaduc de Millau thread. This impressive bridge, built in south west of France is 300m high. ...
[Space and Place] Quality time in hish speed trains
high speed train (HST) network asked Doors of Perception Group to organize a workshop about services to improve train travel: Today's high speed train (HST) travel is a marvel of speed and profligate resource consumption. It is transforming the experience of space and time of 13 million travellers ...
[Space and Place] What about Banana Time?
Banana time is a concept coined by sociologist Donald Roy. It captures how employees have made workplaces more tolerable by participating in off-task camaraderie. Banana time was the collectively determined break time of factory workers, the start of which was signaled with a lunch box banana. It s...
Reeds Law: the value of a network is not simply function of the number of people in it (Metcalfes Law: the number of potential connections between nodes grows more quickly than the number of nodes), but the number of social groups that those people form. When the same network includes ways for th...
[Research] Social Trends in Mobile Entertainment
Slides of Amy Jo Kim's talk at the Game Developers Conference: The Network is the Game: Social Trends in Mobile Entertainment Social Trends in Mobile Communications 1.Mobiles stay connected to their social network via cellphone 2.Mobiles self-organize into fluid, loose-knit groups 3.Mobiles seek ou...
[Weird] French insults in Secret Of Monkey Islands
I was a crazy fan of this video game on my Amiga 500, I put the french insults in the extended version of this post. Those insults were meant to be used during a sword combat ! Réponses aux insultes des pirates Q : Aucun adversaire ne m'a jamais résisté ! R : Ta mauvaise haleine a suffi à tous les ...
(Space and Place) SupaCool Psychogeography Footage
Version Magazine is a nice reference for psychogeography freaks like me :) Four issues are available and their map of the world project is cool as well. THE MAP OF THE WORLD is a world map, printed with the dimensions of 137x232cm and fixed on metal boards. In contrast with an ordinary map we erase...