Via guardian unlimited Stanley Milgram developed what he called the "Small World Hypothesis", which said, in effect, that everyone was connected to everyone else by six degrees or less - but it was the famous Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon online game site that firmly implanted the obscure scientific t...
my foaf file
I easily used FOAF-a-Matic : a Javascript application that allows you to create a FOAF ("Friend-of-A-Friend") description of yourself. Do it and simple copy the generated FOAF description from the text box above and paste it into a file. Put the file onto your website somewhere where it's publicall...
DO PEOPLE CARE OF THEIR PARTNER'S LOCATION ?
I have just finished the first draft of the paper I am going to submit to CSCW : DO PEOPLE CARE OF THEIR PARTNER'S LOCATION ? Spatial awareness in virtual environments. NICOLAS NOVA, DAVID TRAUM, LYDIA MONTANDON, DAVID OTT and PIERRE DILLENBOURG Abstract : this paper proposes to report on four expe...
Lyon Light Festival
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE This week end is Lyon's Light Festival ! The most important piece of art is this one : ...
Kitchen Table as Locality Metaphor
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I like this idea of kitchen table as locality metaphor. "The kitchen table is the holding place for keys, wallets and pocketbooks at the end of the day. It's also the place where many families gather for meals and coffee breaks. By allowing distant friends and family mem...
Research project
With Mauro, we plan to carry out a short research project about professions that needs location awareness like firemen or people who conduct field studies. The idea is to discover the social meanings of location awareness. Many questions are to be answered : - When people need to locate others ? -...
this is not a method
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE «Qu'est ce qu'il y a encore comme problème ? Je commence à en avoir assez ! What do you want ? Do you want me to take my plane, to go back to my country, to go back to France ! ? Is that what you want ? This is provocation ! that is provocation ! This is not a method ! P...
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE "You can preview items from the entire 3500 hour British Pathe Film Archive which covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970." ...
google fight !
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Wanna play google fight ? Best shot : my left shoe (584 000 results) versus my right shoe (1 060 000 results) Mum (1 770 000 results) versus Dad (6 340 000 results) Kazaa (13 000 000 results) versus Lawyer (7 010 000 results) ...
A wish-list of cell phone functions
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Read in Japan Media Review : 1. Adjusting according to the atmosphere We wish cell phones could detect the atmosphere and adjust to it, in cases such as lectures, wedding ceremonies and funerals. There are always people who forget to turn off cell phones. It would be ve...