Naomi Miyake, in her paper "Making Internal Process External for Constructive Collaboration" explains in which way how human cognitive processes not only rely on internal knowledge but also on a physical externalization of the interaction of those processes with the nvironments, made up of people a...
INRETS: research lab in France about transport
INRETS is a french public structure involved into research about transport, mobility from various point of view. One part of the structure is in Lyon and focuses on the cognitive aspects of mobility/transport : mental imagery, mental model, space orientation, decision-making, shared attention, cogn...
Pierre la Police
Smart interview of my favorite french comic writer: Pierre la Police (in english). It appears that he foreshadowed the mad cow disease phenomenon in my series entitled La Balançoire de Plasma (the plasma seesaw). It is some kind of pharmaceutical western in which cannibalistic super heroes - but th...
Metadata : what for ?
I was wondering about how using metadata. It is not just matter of having a good reference system to found your stuff on google. You can use metada to: locate stuff (in the virtual world as well in real space), discover, select, manipulate/re-use, document, contextualise, manage, store, sort... Acc...
City, shit and the future of shitty cities
I am glad reading in space and culture (the new weblog by Anne Galloway and Rob Shields) that there is a course at London Consortium about shit and civilization: our ambivalent relationship to ordure in the city, culture and the psyche. Our societies are, quite literally, founded on shit. Civilizat...
What have you done during the new economy ?
I would like to set a post trend :) Now that the bubble inlfated, I could as the question: What have you done during the new economy? As for me, since I was since a student in cognitive science, I just worked as a part time video game design consultant/R&D about ergonomics and human-computer intera...
mudlondon : "gonzo geographical data collection"
Mudlondon is a collaborative mapping project: building of an interactive map of London, accessible via an instant messaging bot. It consists of geographical models which are represented as RDF graphs. you can wander round them, like a MUD or MOO, with a bot interface which you can use to create and...
Paper recap : Thomas Erickson about Space and Social Interactions
Thomas Erickson's paper From Interface to Interplace: The Spatial Environment as a Medium for Interaction published in the Proceedings of Conference on Spatial Information Theory in 1993 should be considered a seminal step to show to what extent spatial feature is a medium for social interaction an...
Distinction between Space and Place (321)
Via Lainer, R. and I. Wagner, 1998. Connecting Qualities of Social Use with Spatial Qualities. In Proceedings of CoBuild98. Streitz, N., S. Konomi, and H. Burkhardt (Eds.), Heidelberg: Springer. Still the same discussion about the distinction between Space and Place : This discussion also suggest...
Head Mounted Display Company
Motion Research is a company that develops technologies that address the issue of information retrieval while in motion, namely two products, based upon its patented technologies: A head-mounted display (HMD) and the Autonomous Personal Data Recorder and Transmitter (APDRT) system. A person partici...