I finished Luigina Ciolfi's paper Understanding Spaces as Places: Extending Interaction Design Paradigms. The author underlined the very notion of the importance of considering spaces as place (nothing's new since Harrison and Dourish, 1996), and analysing those features of a place that are going t...
Research about context-awareness at France Telecom Orange
France Telecom and its mobile subset Orange seem to work on location-based services. Pascal Chesnais leads the team in Boston. It appears to be a HCI group focused on prototyping, test and demo-based research. Their aim is to integrate users-interactions with personal context (like location informa...
News social class : the creative class
I just bought Richard Florida's book : The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life. The author claims study the emergence of a new social class : creative people (researchers, architects, musician, designer, engineer...). His point is that in...
Après avoir réussi à arrêter le nuage de Tchernobyl, le gouvernement francais veut légiférer sur le contenu des sites web(projet de loi pour la "confiance" dans l'économie numérique : titre affligeant et rigolo s'il en est). Via odebi.org Les Articles 43-8 et 43-9, même modifiés par le Sénat, au b...
how people produce intimate narratives of virtual world.
Mizuko Ito (I already talked about one of her piece of work, she also has a nice bento moblog !) wrote an interesting paper (though still a draft) about how people in real world experience and produce intimate narratives of distant and virtual world. This reminds me a previous post about virtual sp...
K2 exploration
I like the way this guy proposes to visit cities (in french) : Expédition au k2 : Explorer minutieusement la portion de ville enclose dans le carré "k2", du plan-guide en usage. Profiter au mieux des ressources touristiques, culturelles, estaminologiques...qu'il recèle. He proposes here to visit ...
What about a research center in a squat ?
Is this the future ?Like the Research facility in Distractions (Bruce Sterling) ...
Watermarking the city ?
Watermarking a city consist in putting signs readable (series of symbols on sidewalks and walls to indicate something.) only by happy-few :) like hobo-language, warchalking, graffiti, rave codes... It seems that warchalking was inspired by the practice of hobos during the Great Depression to use ch...
Interaction Design for Alternative City Tourisms
I just read From Bovine Horde to Urban Players: Multidisciplinary Interaction Design for Alternative City Tourisms byAnne Galloway, Martin Ludvigsen, Hillevi Sundholm and Alan Munro. I like the concept of co-dependency versus isolating experience concerning the balance of power between the tourist ...
Situation Awareness Outdoor !
Via geo outdoors, Situation Awareness appears to be as meaningful for geo wankers as for military : S.A. stands for Situation Awareness and good pilots are continually thinking about it. They're aware that it constantly changes, and they are prepared for the scenarios that alternate situations may ...