Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Very interesting discussion with DKS today about the notion of Place with respect to web portals. What is a place in a portal ? Is the portal one place ? Do a portal have places ? Method : 1. What is a place ? it's a space with : an activity that occurs in it, filled wit...
Spatial Awareness Types
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I tried to discriminate various spatial awareness information and elaborate on those types : ...
Geodemographics
Via GEOG_8291 :"Geodemographics. Basically categorizing neighborhoods. It's well used in marketing. The obvious example is store site selection. You want to build your store near the people who would shop there. Who are those people and where are they? Geodemographics." ...
Impact of the medium on grounding
Clark and Brennan's paper (1991) offer a very interesting framework to discriminate the impacts of media on commmunication, particularly on the grounding process (= the process of building a common understanding of the situation carried out by the participants). Grounding changes with the communica...
Cyclomessagers a Lyon
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Enfin des cyclomessagers a Lyon : Trans-Bike, de Lyon jusqu'aux Monts d'Or. La course intra-muros facturée 4, 20 euros si le client a acheté un carnet, 5,50 euros pour un service ponctuel. ...
gargoyle and self-gargoyle
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE A gargoyle (according to Neal Steaphenson's SNOWCRASH) is a person who is decked out in computer gear such that they are able to catalog all data collected through their senses as well as get data that is useful to whatever goal that they have. There are two types of gar...
Mobile MMOG !
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Since mobile phones are becoming powerful computers, new games like MMOG are arriving ! Persistent gaming + mobility could offer very interesting possibilities for gaming : merging virtual and physical world and so forth ! ...
tele avariee
en parlant de tele/tv/tévé, itelevision est assez avariee; ils sont tellement nazes que leur reportage culturel ne sortent pas de paris, juste un peu du periph. Exemple : ce week end pour les journees du patrimoine (pour les gens qui lisent mais qui vivent pas en frouzland, c une sorte de journee p...
Simpson's map
Talking about space and maps, we should focus on this very interesting map of Springfield as seen by the Simpsons :) Let's draw a floor plan of the Simps' house with the space syntax methodology now ! ...
Example of Joint Activity to study
A counterstrike missionGoal : capture the opponent's flag Situation : two teams, each of the team has the same goal. Tools/artifacts : ammo, weapons...to be listed... communication tools... Constraints/scope : 3D environment, a computer for each participant... Research questions : - which coordinat...