Definitions abour Social Nets

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Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Social Affordance : "properties of an environment that act as socio-contextual facilitators relevant for the learner's social interactions" Kreijins, Kirschner and Jochems, 2002

Social Presence : "the degree of salience of the other person in the interaction and the consequent salience of the interpersonal relationships. (...) Social presence is required to enhance and foster online social interaction, which is the major foundation of social learning" Williams and Christie

The archetypal social affordance device is the coffee machine.

COiffure styley

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Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Pour aller dans le trend des sapeurs (les blacks qui s'habillent TRES classe facon colonial avec des super costards, des petites cravates larges notamment), voila une affiche des coupes CORRECTES (le sapeur sit ce qui est correct et ce qui n'est pas CORRECT), vu a lyon dans un un salon de coiffure afro :

Les noms des coupes sont fabuleux : chèf de monaco, cincinnati zippé, half-currency, plateau...

Skateboarding, Architecture and Space

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I am definitely convinced that my early interests (teenagers' stuff) are still linked to my research. or my passion to urban "dérive/drift". I found this reference : Borden, I. (2001) Skateboarding, space and the city: architecture and the body, Berg, New York.

I always thought that skateboarding (I used to skate) was a way to discover cities by hanging out on various spots, selecting the best spots...

Skatboarding (and its culture) is definitely urban-related !!! Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment-recent estimates total 40 million world-wide. We are all aware of their often extraordinary talent and manoeuvres on the city streets. This book is the first detailed study of the urban phenomenon of skateboarding. It looks at skateboarding history from the surf-beaches of California in the 1950s, through the purpose-built skateparks of the 1970s, to the street-skating of the present day and shows how skateboarders experience and understand the city through their sport. Dismissive of authority and convention, skateboarders suggest that the city is not just a place for working and shopping but a true pleasure-ground, a place where the human body, emotions and energy can be expressed to the full.

The huge skateboarding subculture that revolves around graphically-designed clothes and boards, music, slang and moves provides a rich resource for exploring issues of gender, race, class, sexuality and the family. As the author demonstrates, street-style skateboarding, especially characteristic of recent decades, conducts a performative critique of architecture, the city and capitalism. Anyone interested in the history and sociology of sport, urban geography or architecture will find this book riveting.

Henri Lefebvre : All interact in social spatializations

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Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE "What exactly is the mode of existence of social relationships? ...The study of space offers an answer according to which he social relations of production have a social existence to the extent that they have a spatial existence; they project themselves into a space, becoming inscribed there, and in the process producing that space itself. Failing this, these relations would remain in the realm of ‘pure’ abstraction - that is to say, in the realm of representations and hence of ideology: the realm of verbalism, verbiage and empty words" (Lefebvre, 1991:129).

"It is a question of discovering or developing a unity of theory between fields which are given as being separate,...Which fields?...First, the physical, nature, the cosmos, - then the mental (which is comprised of logic and formal abstraction), - finally the social. In other words, this search concerns logico-epistemological space - the space of social practices, - that in which sensible phenomena are situated in, not excluding the imaginary, projects and projections, symbols, utopias" (Lefebvre 1974:19).

About mobile studies

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Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Mizuko Ito seems to be a very smart researcher working in the field of cultural anthropology (specialized in studies of media technology use).

Her work deals with how people use the Internet, computer games, and other digital media, particularly in special interest and fan groups that are highly targeted and personalized.

Her studies on Japanese Technoculture and Mobile Phones is particulary worthy regarding my interests.

CSCL 2003 : a brief report

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Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE The CSCL 2003 conference was termed "Designing for change in networked learning environments". One can discriminate three main different axis regarding the contributions :

. integrated learning : different approaches using embedded technologies in face-to-face learning scenarios (like using PDAs to display and annotate slides, or for voting/quizz/brainstorming for instance).

. the design and the analyses of group interaction is a very active field, dealt with various approaches like Social Network Analysis, studies of non-verbal signs, argumentation, perspective-taking, and so on.

. metadata are now rather focused on contents, activitis, interaction. There is much more emphasis put on collaborative and cooperative aspects of learning.

There was also more political discussion concerning the relationships between the CSCL community and the International Society of Learning Science (ISLS). The CSCL will now be embedded as a part of the ISLS.

http://www.colloquia.ch/

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Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE colloquia is a company that organizes workshop about architecture and behaviour.

Human beings shape their environment according to relations that they establish with nature and fellow human beings. Colloquia promotes reflections and initiatives that value cultural and historic diversity of humans in search for a manifold environment. Colloquia - established at the Scientific Park of the Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne - organizes colloquiums and exhibits of a scientific character with a human dimension.

Experiment

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Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I am trying to find ideas for a short exploratory experiment concerning spatial grounding and SMS. I think I am going to ask a group of young hipster in Lausanne if they want to participate (I can pay them :).

The idea is to investigate the way they represent the psistion of their parners among a group...

moblogging for what ?

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fab asked me about the use of mobile blogging... is it really useful ? I think it could help for just in time blogging...to post quick thoughts (or a reminder like a post it), especially if we consider the nano/microdocument format of this kind of post. The fact that you can also send pictures (or maybe audio comments in the future) is also interesting. Additionally, group moblogging could be a possibility for field research/acitivities (for children who explore a museum for instance, collecting cues about a specific topic, writing a we-blog with their impressions, pictures...).

-> moblogging sounds nice for individual knowledge management as well as collaborative activities (smart scenarios are yet to be created BUT I do have few ideas about that)

Mobile scenarios to be developped

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idees pour utilisation des technologies mobiles : · Project management : groupe avec qui fait quoi, qui est ou... a afficher sur un tableau a partir des natels... · Something that would allow people to display the social network that connect them to... their work-team ? Comme les gens appartiennent à des groupes de travail, on pourrait leur montrer leur groupe... comunity visualization tool . use of mobile phones for voting or asking questions to the teacher (in class) · Mobile blog : moblogging : distributing mobile weblogs... recueil de sms/mms/photos par exemple ???? avec contexte temporel (date, heure), spatial (photo ?) : prise de photo, dessin de schéma... les étudiants du groupe envoient ca et on peut tout reunir dans un blog du groupe ? sorte de carnet de bord du groupe de travail. Ce serait un peu un group memory ????? Acces sur laptop ou desktop ensuite · Pour poser des questions au prof qui donne son cours, pour eviter de le deranger les etudiants envoient des sms sur un whiteboard situé à coté du prof ??? · analysis of the movements will give us an idea of many social patterns : group configuration, group migrations, preferences of sectors in buildings… · . . Des objets communiquants qui vont chercher du contenu périodiquement (récupérer des news, lien avec forum ?) et qui le ramène à l'user (on peut imaginer un agent IA ?) · Petit portail light sur PDA ? · Smart room/smart classroom/calm technology ??? · Ca peut servir pour le monitoring de student ?

do technology suck ?

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jesaispluki me faisait remarquer que cetait pas cool ("c 'est pas humain") de lire des docs sur mon laptop et que c'etait plus sympa de lire des "vrais livres", du papier quoi... parce que c moins impersonnel, plus joli et gnagnagna... surement encore un bobo en mal de "wellness" (je hais ce concept). Deja je peux lui opposer la raison que je bousille moins d'arbres si il veut de l'argumentation ecolo. En plus, a force d'utiliser des computational things on se rend compte que des outils sont dispoe t super utiles. C pas etre hip de dire que je prefere lire sur laptop mes docs parce qu'ils sont searchables, linkables, facilement transferables (email ou IM soft) et que je peux avoir mes docs sans avoir a trimballer une malle de 5m de long :) c un texte pas tres joli et en mauvais francais que j'ai ecrit la :(

mais ca souleve encore une fois le phénomène des gens anti-technologies... qui ralent parce que le cafe c mieux que la chatroom, que les ebooks c acraint et que le social software c une notion antithétique (entendu au cours d'une discussion avec une antitech grrrl); c souvent les grrrl d'ailleurs mais pas toujours; pas envie de perdre mon temps a leur expliquer que les outils cognitifs(software ou non : le livre est un cognitive tool aussi) remplissent une fonction et s'insèrent dans une niche; c pas parce que je lis des research papers en pdf (les revues papiers vont disparaitre btw) que je ne lis jamais de bouquins (au contraire, je lis toujours des romans papiers !)... marre de devoir se justifier... depuis que j'utilise le reseau (minitel puis l'internet) je dois le faire alors now fuck !

Skills2learn .:;

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experimental psychology methods, quantitative/qualitative analysis, social network analysis, literature about space/cognition/collaboration, literature about cognition theories (distributed cognition, activity theory, socio-cultural perspectives...), literature about awareness, programming (C or python script as well as visualization in order to analyse research stuff), design (ethnographic studies, use of scenarios namely)... cool program .:;

Count Zero (William Gibson)

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William Gibson's Count Zero : two worlds/spaces collide : the mystic, organic world of Haitian Voudoun, and the detached, cool, mechanical world of the matrix/infosphere -> two different virtual spaces... How can this be related to my stuff ???

It's just a metaphor :)

Thoughts about awareness

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le fait de localiser les gens ou qu'ils soit me parait insupportable; a l'interieur d'un seul batiment ET dans un contexte de travail/apprentissage collaboraitf, cela parait moins violent; J'aimerais arriver a montrer que ce n 'est pas le fait de savoir OU SONT PRECISEMENT les autres partenaires d'un groupe de travail qui est utile mais que c'est plutot quelque chose de diffus (une sorte de augmented presence), une presence virtuelle au sein d'un reseau social QUI IMPORTE (reseau avec sms par exemple)

CSCL 2003 : Bergen

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premiers constats en norvege (bergen) : architecture riche, deconcertante, bcp d'elements disparates (vieilles baraques en boite, low rise moderne, art deco...). Les interieurs sont tres riches en elements arts deco, du 50s aussi. Bcp de coiffeurs (frisors) ou alors c moi ki ny fait plus attention en france... ya des meme un salon de coiffure/vente de vinyle hip hop -> ca c hip ! Sinon les filles (qui portent toutes de strings) crachent (?) par terre dans la rue. L'adolescent mondial n'est pas en reste question chain store : hennes et moritz (h&m pour les blais) et compagnie sont dans la place. Les 7eleven sont encore de la partie mais contrairement a la suede ou a danemark on trouve un concurrent : mix1. Les supermarches ont des noms sympas : rimi ou rima1000. Pas mal de amchines a sous aussi.

SPACE SPACE SPACE

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Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE The literature on space is vast and multidisciplinary : cognitive psychology, social psychology, HCI, architecture, urban planning, ergonomics, proxemics, computer science (VRML, X3D), virtual world research.

I am attempting to make a literature review about space/cognition/collaboration as I mentioned in a previous post.

Here is the supposed outline of this literature review :

+Space and cognition +Social uses of space -Physical space Personal space Group space - Virtual space - Augmented physical space