I still try to find a relevant phd topic !!! It is clear that it's going to deal with the social-cognitive roles of space in collaboration but... I could focus on the cognitive functions of giving context-awareness cues (presence/position/direction) to a small-scale team (2 or 3 persons). Indicator...
Position Paper
I should write a position paper concerning AWARENESS (awareness and CSCW or awareness and learning). Two dimensions : - local : awareness about the task - community building : awareness about the other partners ...
Movies spatial maps
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I do really appreciate headmap's ideas. In particular this one : "spatial maps of films : where do the characters go? ..do they stay in a confined area or travel (linear or circular) ?" ...
Jean Baudrillard / The Matrix
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE ... l'interview en francais en extended entry... Baudrillard décode «Matrix» Pour le théoricien de la postmodernité, le film des frères Wachowski est un symptôme instructif, le fétiche même de lunivers technologique quil semble dénoncer. Un produit de la culture de ma...
Lausanne Pictures
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I don't really know what the last picture depicts. Perhaps an old NASA shuttle silently fallen on switzerland few years ago... ...
Remapping the local with mobile phones
"Design predictions were that 80 per cent of information would be panEuropean, 20 per cent local, but it is actually the other way around. Phones are about mobility, but they are also about localness and specific regionality. They are about a configuration of place that is a quite local sense of pl...
MObile phone and subway
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Via DEMOS, a report about mobile devices : "Since 1993, Hong Kong residents have been able to use their mobiles throughout the entire underground system.Why is this still not possible in Britain? Back in 1999, a spokesperson from one UK network cited differences in mobil...
Phd thesis topic (3)
How the POSITION/DIRECTION of the partner influences the GROUNDING process in the context of mediated collaboration ? Grounding is a simpler collaborative process to investigate than mutual modelling, even though it was better studied in linguistics... How space is grounded in conversations... Loca...
Another phd topic
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Embodied mathematics : geometry, mobile devices (buetooth for instance) to help children to learn spatial geometry ??? drawing square in mixed reality ??? ...
Great things can happen when you move beyond the bullet point
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE It's difficult BUT moving beyond the traditional PowerPoint deck of bulleted items and actually speak to the audience conversationally rather than reading slides is a very GOOD thing !!! ...