Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE A lire : Précis de Psycholinguistique (Jean Carron) 2 frameworks : Clark et Malone/Crowston For Clark, coordination is a way to solve practical problem (the participants share a common goal). These problems comes from the lack of common ground. Solving strategy : exchang...
The rendezvous problem on discrete locations
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE E.J. Anderson and R.R. Weber (1990), The rendezvous problem on discrete locations. J. Appl. Prob. 27 839-851, 1990. Abstract : Two friends have become separated in a building or shopping mall and wish to meet as quickly as possible. There are $n$ possible locations where...
Schelling's Focal Point
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Schelling (1960) described the problem face by two non-communicating persons who wish to meet at a common location. According to him, the most important factor is the fact that those people have a common culture that can produce focal points (lately called Schelling Po...
Travel Plans
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I played with indyjunior, which is an interesting location awareness tool. It allows you to customize a map which you can use to easily display your geographic location. It seems that people use this tool to inform their buddies of their travel plans : Peter Merholz for ...
Meeting with Mauro
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Things to do : - list joint activities taken from the real world and related to mobility (micro : same building or colocation; macro : geographical distance). - what is coordination and in particular : spatial coordination ?And then I have to find hypothesis (people coor...
CRAFT Collective Blog
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Here is the CRAFT collective blog. Information about the CRAFT itself as well as projects concerning educational technologies and Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. CRAFT is the Center for Research and Support of Training and its Technologies at the Swiss Federal...
New Flat !
I moved yesterday in a new flat in the south of Lausanne ! With Mirweis and Mauro. Yes, indeed, we have all a virtual life, we do exist since google can find us. However, here is the gatekeeper of our place : ...
Tools tools tools
Tools and social organization ? Marx !!!!!!!! find relevant stuff about that... ...
Tuesday research meeting
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE For the Megawatch Seminar : prepare something, smart ideas of scenarios (target group : epfl student). for instance : how location contribute to problem solving. Strong design issue : 4buttons. Pierre est contre l'idée de McLuhan ("the medium is the message") car cela po...
New trend :
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Via BoingBoing Stealth Disco is the act of sneaking up behind your cow-orkers and silently rocking out while a co-conspirator films you and the hapless "victim." ...