Few notes of a discussion with my phd director (messy and in french sorry) Il faut pour ma thèse quelqeu chose de visionnaire mais pas casse-gueule, il faut une application précise Objets situés physiquement dans l'espace Réfléchir à des contextes professionels dans lesquels la frontière entre fo...
Weblogs, awareness and transactive memory
How come weblogs, awareness and transactive memory are related ? As a matter of fact, weblogs, by presenting somebody's thought, references, activities, plans and so on, is a kind of asynchronous awareness tool. Dourish and Belloti (1992) gave one of the best-known definitions for awareness: aware...
Mobile Phones Profiles
Marketing people try to categorize people by building profile in order to sell them the most appropriate stuff. I've listed below few so-called "profiles" : 'balanced enjoyers', 'inside explorers', 'cool followers', 'status seekers', 'asian aspirers', 'trendsetters' (this one is too simple :), 'fun...
J'ai lu un texte très intéressant de Gilles Deleuze (dans Pourparlers, 1990) : "Post-Scriptum sur les sociétés de contrôle" qui traite du glissement qui s'opère actuellement des sociétés disciplinaires apparues au XVIIIème (famille, école, usine, hopital, prison). Ces institutions sont finies, seul...
Cognitive functions tu support Collaborative Work
I've made a brief review of the cognitive functions that should be fullfilled for collaborative work:Group memory/Storing the context/Group mirrors/Conflict/disagreement/Explanation/Internalization/Appropriation/Shared cognitive load/Mutual regulation/Social grounding/Division of labor/Building a s...
Misceallanous Stuff
I was thinking of innovatives ways to use mobile devices for educational purposes. We could propose a kind of game in a city where players have to collaborate (different roles could be assigned), performing a joint acivity where they need to negotiate. Maybe I could use something like that to test ...
Submitted Paper for International Conference on Groupware
I have written a paper for the International Conference on Groupware in Autrans, France (Sunday 28, September - Thursday 2, October 2003). Here is the abstract : The Impact of Awareness Tools on Mutual Modelling in a Collaborative Video-Game This paper describes the findings of an experimental rese...
Stuff about Social Space
Social Space is a crux issue. It should be considered as the cornerstone of joint activities and hence to collaborative work/learning. This space is build considering the traces left in the environment (virtual or not) by people. We all send signals into social space that can be decoded by others a...
The VCR watches TV for you !
I really like this quote from Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency : "Take the VCR, for example. Not only can it watch TV for you, it can watch more channels and watch them better than you can. Similarly, the Electric Monk does your believing for you. Instead of having to wade thr...
Does WiFi technology suck ?
There is nowadays an interesting debate about this trend of putting WiFi hotspot everywhere to provide users with a permanent connection to the Internet. Accoridng to mobitopia and francois planque, there are several limits to the WiFi utopia : - WiFi's achilles heel: WiFi's spectrum which is high ...