The paper "Staging and Evaluating Public Performances as an Approach to CVE" (Steve Benford, Mike Fraser, Gail Reynard, Boriana Koleva and Adam Drozd The Mixed Reality Laboratory, Nottingham), claims that staging public performances can be a fruitful approach to CVE research. The authors describe f...
[Research] FOAF/RDF Vizualization with RDFAuthor
I tested visualization with RDFAuthor : You can export you visualization in pdf, tiff or even better: SVG :) ...
[Weird] Musique electronique deglingue
Le sur un forum de musique électronique Para utilise principalement une dictée magique de Texas Instruments tandis que Tacteel est à fond dans l'ordibaby de Nathan. Après ils compressent tout ça dans un Commodore 64 et recrachent le tout avec un autoradio volé. ...
[TheWorld] Rumsfeld Fighiting Techniques
Seen on Poe News, numerous fighting techniques used by Donald Rumsfled: Drunken Temple Boxing, Lion Claw Technique, Crouching Tiger, Quacking Duck Hand, Pressing Palms Style... My favorite move is certainly "Fist of the West Side!". ...
[MyResearch] Location-Based Games: coping with uncertainty
Steve Benford, Rob Anastasi,Martin Flintham, Adam Drozd, Andy Crabtree, and Chris Greenhalgh (Mixed Reality Laboratory) and Nick Tandavanitj, Matt Adams, and Ju Row-Farr (Blast Theory): Coping with Uncertainty in a Location-Based Game. Such games (BotFighters!, Battlemachine) provide an interesting...
[Weird] Missing Link between Motivation and Moustache
Via bbc.co.uk: Police in a district in India's Madhya Pradesh state are being paid to grow moustaches because bosses believe it makes them command more respect.(...) "Moustaches are improving the personalities of our constables. They are acquiring an aura of their own. They are creating a positive ...
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[MyResearch] Locative Media Community
I saw that I am part of the locative media community: Locative network :) ...
[Tech] RDFAuthor: tool designed to create RDF instance data
For of all you who plays with RDF crap, there is a nice tool RDFAuthor that help you to create rdf instance data. ->"Authoring is largely a matter of dragging in data and binding it together using a graphical interface.". It is a nice tool really handy for authoring RDF (and querying it...). I am a...
[MyResearch] Proof of alien abduction thanks to wifi triangulation
It seems that I was abducted by some sort of alien (perhaps elohims) while testing our new location awareness tool on the EPFL campus. I was quiet, testing my new app on my ipaq while drifting through the architect library, wondering about the power of my signal strength (I admit I was also amazed ...