Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I always thought that cybercafé/netcafé sucks. I don't understand for instance why city executives (those people who hired expensive consultants or who read dummy reports about net/cell phone expansion) complain about the lack of cybercafe (in Lyon for instance, some mor...
Urban Condition
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Tuomas Toivonen, in the history doc of the Aula project discriminate four places in cities : home, workplace, third place (places of meeting like bars and cafes) and urban space. The fourth, urban space, is made up of two different spaces : - consumers environment : inte...
Wires
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I really like those wires !!! ...
Background Awareness
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Je suis en train de me demander si le fait de filer des outils d'awareness ultra precis a un groupe (d'etudiants par exemple) n'est pas une mauvaise voie... Je me demande si l'awareness du groupe se jouerait pas plutot au niveau du background awareness : recreer un senti...
Architecture
J'ai vu entre midi et deux heures une expo des projets de diplòme des étudiants d'architecture de l'EPFL. C'est fascinant : richese des supports (mock-ups, posters, plans, fasciule bien designé...). En plus, ils utilisent une quantité impressionante de visualisations superbes et très riches en info...
Questions I should adress :
Prior imagining interaction scenaios with ultra-hype mobile devices that rocks, I should adress those questions : How do students work together ? How to they collaborate ? Is SPACE (and space information) meaningul ? Is background awareness useful ? Do they maintain background awareness and how ? W...
Mobile Texting fosters new technosocial situations
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Japanese academics (Mizuko Ito and Daisuke Okabe) defines the concept of 'technosocial situations' to refer to technologically-mediated social orders (= Erving Goffmans' theory of social situation : isomorphism between physical space and social situation). Their work (an...
About Awareness Tools and Disney
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Pal Mickey is the ultimate Walt Disney World insider : s a talking Mickey Mouse toy that entertains and assists guests in each of the four theme parks at Walt Disney World Resort. Using location cues, Pal Mickey announces interesting events, upcoming shows, and nearby ri...
Mobile Stuff for Sex
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE While working on a state-of-the-art report about mobile technologies, I found this incredible site that sells sex toys. I do have few remarks : - those devices have INCREDIBLE names : Golden bumble, Micro-dolphin, Heart Shaped G-Spot, Impule HyperSonic G... - there are ...
Nerd's Existentialism
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Fabien asks " does something that could not be found on Google really exist ?" Fabien me pose la question suivante : "qqchose qui n'est pas sous google existe t il vraiment?" Je crois avoir deja parle de cela par ici il y a quelques temps :) ...