In a smart paper about the air traffic controller (ATC) strategies to avoid collision between planes, Nunes and Mogford (2003) explain that ATC rely on a mental representation (individual mental model) of the current traffic scenario. This mental model is termed "The Picture". The ability of the co...
[MyResearch] Refining the notion of Spatial Awareness
Spatial Awareness is one of the component of Situation Awareness (participant's internal model of the situation that involved teamwork): it is the understanding of the location, in 3D space, of particular objects or participants within a given environment. For instance, in a military mission, spati...
[TheWorld] Tall latte Index
The 'Tall Latte Index' as is counterpart 'Big Mac Index' is meant to show how currency-exchange rates translate to actual purchasing power. The index shows how many Starbuck lattes (as opposed to Big Macs) U.S. dollars buy in a given country when exchanged for the local currency. USA: $2.80. Switze...
[ResearchIdea] Social Text Landmarks
I thought of a kind of notes linked to a GPS point like in GeoNotes. When someone enter a zone, he receives one or two notes. The new thing here (compared to all those location-linked information system) would be that people only receive messages from their social networks (described for instance b...
[Games] BBTests: testing toys
BBTests is the new testing structure of Berchet (a french toy company). Installed rue Jean-Bourgey in Villeurbanne (Lyon, France), they aim to test toys with families, psychologists and sociologists. They observe children palying with those toys, propose refinement or modification. ...
[Urban Stuff] Week End in Amsterdam
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[Research] About spatial behavior in CSCL
I am starting to think about a possible research project with tamara that would deal with pairs' spatial behavior when interacting when facing a computer, in a Computer Supported Collaborative Learning scenario. I saw that Richard Joiner & Kim Issroff (University of Bath, University college, London...
[MyResearch] Location Matters!
Exploring Spatial Features for Collaborative Problem Solving with locative Media Location Matters! is the name of my research project. It deals with how people use space and spatial features to solve problem collaboratively in mobile settings. There is a very wide range of literature concerning how...
[MyResearch] Division of labor in front of a computer
In a study of 1986, Miyake claims that in a collaborative activity we observe a spontaneous distribution of roles between the one who does (task-doer) and the one who observes (observer). In a CSCL case, the typical configuration of the computer reinforces, if not imposes, this distribution of role...
[Research] Office space and productivity
About the quest to create work spaces that encourage greater collaboration and productivity : Workspaces That Promote Collaboration by Mark M. Sheehan. Research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Thomas Allen shows that the generation of productive ideas, particularly in research an...