I think the title of this post (directly taken from a GAINAX animated movie released in the 80s) absolutely covers the idea of SocialTexting !!! The topic of social navigation takes into account the very concept of Schelling Point. It is an essential element of every city's life (for instance : tim...
Yesterday...
Yesterday was the inauguration of CRAFT (Centre de Recherche et de d'Appui à la Formation et ses Technologies, Center for Research on Education and its Technologies), the new epfl lab directed by Pierre Dillenbourg, my phD director. I've met interesting people, in various fields like architects or ...
Today's todolist :)
Gosh ! here's the first to do list... another use of a blog I should add to the list posted yesterday ! - Write something about social navigation (a quick'n dirty state-of-the-art) - Write a paper for CRIWG'2003 ! - Meet Pr Edoerda Charbon on tuesday (at Pearl Pu's course), introduce myself and tal...
Social Navigation
The book "Social Navigation of Information Space", outcome of a HCI workshop, gather contributions about the very topic of socialnav. I've only read the introduction but it appears to be a relevant reference. SocialNav starts from the idea that "when people need information, they will often turn to...
Misc stuff about mobile devices
I've just read an article about the SPV Phone (Orange and Krosoft). It explains why they locked the cell phone so that people cannot run any freeware software, but only software developed by Orange (or under orange license). It's a shame, and their reasons are quite amazing : they locked it "becaus...
Why using a blog ?
After an interesting discussion with fabien and dks about weblogs, I've read an article concering this trend. Weblogs serve several functions : - selection of material: by reading some specialist's posts you can select relevant information. - personal knowledge management : the blog is an "outboard...
Augmenting socio-cognitive interactions
I've found notes I've written when attending a talk by my phD director. I put it here since it could be seen as a framework for my phD. 1. Communication tools fulfill cognitive fonctions : - Group memory : a chat, for instance, keep an history of the conversations, the questions asked... An email...
Virtual Communities and social network
I am just entering the field of research concerning virtual communities (gathering of geographically dispersed people with common interests and activities) and other social considerations. My interest towards this area is quite old : from minitel stuff at the end of the 80's till the discover of th...
Memo about my research
After having focused on the cognitive impacts of awareness tools in a collaborative video-game, my phD will adress the question of the social and cognitive effects of context-awareness tools in collaborative mobile activities. I have to find a joint activity where users are engaged in joint tasks t...
First entry about Pierre la Police !!!
I finally decide to move from my low-tech html page to a database-linked blog generator (movable type as a matter of fact), blog for real ! I had begun to feel some frustration with html I think... so, let's use one of those ready-steady tools for making weblogs... This ain't a warblog but a kind o...
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