Meeting with the Megawatch team

This morning I met Yusuf Leblebici and Pablo Ienne who work at EPFL on wireless mobile devices. Their goal : how to get enough intelligence in a little device that can run 6months without refueling the battery. They want to see the emergence of original uses. I could use this device as a platform f...

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Roberto's Masters Thesis Dissertation

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Yesterday, I attended roby's presentation of his masters thesis dissertation about PDA's interaction styles. His experiment showed that the virtual keyboard was the most used feature to interact with the PDA. Users (even expert) seems to prefer this tiny keyboard compare...

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Urban Outfit

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I am really attracted by those urban mask to fight against pollution : Made by bezenville : SURVIVAL SOLUTION FOR URBAN ZONE. Sold online here ...

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CASPIAN

Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) is a NGO that want to be "An information clearinghouse and resource for community and national action" They published interesting stuff about Supermarket Cards and RFID chips (those "tiny tracking devices the size of a grain of ...

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Where 2 find relevant papers

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE CHI Conferences HCI Conferences Mobile HCI Ubicomp CSCW COnferences CSCL Conferences ... Journal : Cognitive Psychology Cognitive Sciences International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Environment and Behaviour Sociometry Cognition Social Psychology ... ...

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Discussion avec Fab

Discussion avec Fab :) a propos des gens qui regardent les chantiers dans les villes, et prennent des photos Fab pages, "y'a pas mal de gens qui s'arretent et observent les chantiers ici... faudra que je prenne des photos de ces spectateurs (même genre que ceux qui observent les manifestations??).....

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My literature review about space

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Do I have to explain details of experimental methodologies ? NO say Pierre, only if I present a seminal experiment (that could be a basis for my research). Just cite the variables, the groups, the task and the results. Read studies about "division of labour" (collaborati...

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Statistiques publications

je suis tombé sur des stat intéressantes ce matin : la part de l'UE dans le nombre de publications mondiales est de 34% 30.5% pour les USA et 8% pour le Japon en 1999. entre 1986 et 1999, le nombre de publis a baissé de 8.27% aux USA alors qu'il a augmenté de de 31.4% pour l'UE, de 31.14% en france...

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The new concept : unawareness

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Via Yohan, I now know the concept of "unawareness". An article about that here : game theory and economical sciences !!! "It is hard to argue that decision makers are aware of all facts effecting the outcome of their decisions. Thus unawareness is a rather natural state ...

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Interferences

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE If you like interferences, go there Si vous aimez les interferences, allez la ...

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