Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Here is my brand new wireless notebook ! ...
Rummie and his awareness tools
After a smart discussion yesterday with dks about the fact the US neo-conservatives won their influence war against the establishment (conservatives), I read an interesting article in Wired last issue about how Donald Rumsfeld modified warfare. One of the striking feature here is the fact that inno...
My work this week
This week my research is headed towards two things : - the EPFL learning center : I am still working with Pierre and David (epfl library's manager) on the scenarios of interaction with mobile technologies, awareness tools and so on. - writing a document on Location-Based Services (a kind of CRAFT w...
Alba
I've finally found this amazing green rabbit named Alba ! French genetic researchers created Alba for artist Eduardo Kac. Thanks to genes borrowed from a jellyfish, the albino rabbit glows green when placed under special lighting. This mutant rabbit raises controversy over genetic manipulation. ...
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Ca faisait longtemps que je voulais blogger sur ce qu'on pourrait appeler la théorie du gazon. Cela part d'un constat empirique simple : suivant le pays/la culture dans laquelle on se trouve, si l'on va dans un parc (en ville généralement), les bords des pelouses sont pl...
LBS
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE LBS means Location-Based Services, it's definitely the actual trend : pull and push services to get info about something in th area. Another buzzword related to few LBS is "social technology" in which location information could be of interest in order to find somebody in...
Awareness of Presence on Multi-Player Games
Yanna Vogiazou at the Knowledge Media University in the UK is foucing on presence-based multiplayer games from a social psychology perspective. Ths webpages presents the reserch project. ...
Buddyspace and Marc Eisenstadt
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE buddyspace is an Instant Messager based on jabber (java, xml). It seems that is to be designed to investigate variou stuff that could be related to my research : Semantics of match-making, Presence semantics and dynamics, Presence in Massively Multiplayer Games... Marc E...
I googled you !
Fab send me this interesting news about google. It is clear now google is a social tool used for dating, selection candidates for a position, check my importance (vanity google).... I like those quotes : "For Jeanne Hornung, Google has changed the rules of dating. The San Francisco PR woman wouldn'...
Defining scenario for the EPFL learning center
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE This week, my work consists in defining scenarios for the EPFL Learning Center to be build for 2008. The idea is to shift from a traditional library to a integrated learning center where smart technologies augment learning, collaboration and students' interaction. ...