My life, my interests, my research
I found an interesting link to this portal: La banca della memoria. The idea is simple, putting together documents on recent historical events that are still not in books and that are often set back by the media/government. Maybe there is a clear intent to force us to forget or maybe not. In any case we can protect ourself building our memory archive.
On the picture one of the person killed on the Ustica accident\.
The CAIF workpshop took off today with hundreds of interesting ideas. We started using intensively SubEthaEdit for taking collaborative annotations.
T. de Jong and W. R. van Joolingen. Discovery learning with computer simulations of conceptual domains. Internal report IST-MEMO-96-02, University of Twente, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Technology, The Netherlands, 1996. [url]
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This seminal article by de Jong contains the state of the art of using simulations for learning purposes. The authors report the mayor learning problems that students have when using simulations and the technological solutions that can be used to overcome the problems. The mayor theoretical point is that in collaborative interaction some of the listed problems are reduced. The paper extend on this offering a research agenda that propose the usage of multiple representations that should reflect on a coordination between a group of learners.
TimTom pointed me on this nice script that allows you to display nearby sited that have been geotagged.
Steven Blyth worked on this nice concept for his thesis at IDII:
Your phone’s screen shows a crowd of human figures, each an avatar of one of your friends, acquaintances or relatives. The frequency of all digital communications between you and each person, which the system monitors, determines that avatar’s posture: an alert stance indicates frequent recent contact, for example; a lethargic posture or turned back means neglect. You can also register non-digital contacts manually. The avatars can be grouped manually according to sentiment, category, and so on, or programmed to begin clustering together before an upcoming event: your family before a birthday, say.
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Zeno pointed me on two applications for sharing the keyboard and mouse between two macs. The first one is called teleport, and works using Bonjour on the same subnet.
The other is called synergy and works between different platforms not necessarily on the same subnet.
With Nicolas, we started this new competition: find an use for a useless object as an iSight.
This is my first entry out of the browsing I did this morning:
1. Using iSight as a Security Surveillance monitor and motion detector > SecuritySpy
2. Using iSight as camcoder > iVeZeen
Using iSight for shooting a time-lapse video > iStopMotion
J. Burrell and G. K. Gay. E-graffiti: evaluating real-word use of a context-aware system. Interacting with Computers, (14):301–312, 2002. [url]
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Much of the previous research in context-aware computing has sought to find a
workable definition of context and to develop systems that could detect and interpret
contextual characteristics of a user’s environment. However, less time has been spent
studying the usability of these types of systems. This was the goal of our project. E-
graffiti is a context-aware application that detects the user’s location on a college campus and display’s text notes to the user based on their location. Additionally, it allows them to create notes that they can associate with a specific location. We released E-graffiti to 57 students who were using laptops that could access the campus wireless network. Their use of E-graffiti was logged in a remote database and they were also required to fill out a questionnaire towards the end of the semester. The lessons learned from the evaluation of E-graffiti point to themes other designers of ubiquitous and context-aware applications may need to address in designing their own systems. Some of the issues that emerged in the evaluation stage included difficulties with a misleading conceptual model, lack of use due to the reliance on explicit user input, the need for a highly relevant contextual focus, and the potential benefits of rapid, ongoing prototype development in tandem with user evaluation.
G. D. Abowd, C. G. Atkenson, J. Hong, S. Long, R. Kooper, and M. Pinkerton. Cyberguide: a mobile context-aware tour guide. Wireless Networks, 3(5):421–433, September 1997. [url]
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Future computing environments will free the user from the constraints of the desktop. Applications for a mobile environment should take advantage of contextual information, such as position, to offer greater services to the user. In this paper, we present the Cyberguide project, in which we are building prototypes of a mobile context-aware tour guide. Knowledge of the user’s current location, as well as a history of past locations, are used to provide more of the kind of services that we come to expect from a real tour guide. We describe the architecture and features of a variety of Cyberguide prototypes developed for indoor and outdoor use on a number of different hand-held platforms. We also discuss the general research issues that have emerged in our context-aware applications development in a mobile environment.
Chi è stato condannato in via definitiva non deve più sedere in Parlamento. Un parlamentare non può rappresentare i cittadini se è stato condannato dalla Giustizia Italiana in via definitiva.
E se la legge lo consente, va cambiata la legge.
E’ profondamente immorale che sia loro consentito di rappresentarci.
Chiedo per questo il vostro aiuto, per inviare una email al massimo rappresentante della Comunità Europea, José Manuel Barroso per far cessare questo scandalo.
Blogviz is a flash driven visualization model for mapping the transmission and internal structure of top links across the blogosphere. It explores the idea of meme propagation by assuming a parallel with the spreading of most cited URLs in daily weblog entries.
Blogviz is currently a portrait of blogosphere’s topic activity during the first 64 days of 2005. Nevertheless, the model was developed to easily incorporate different timeframes. Blogviz will continue to expand in the future, to the possible point of including real-time data.
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Jefferey Heer worked on a tool to visualise the social network as emerging from e-mails analysis. He used the famous ‘enron dataset‘, which is an ensemble of messages made public by their author. The tool he developed as well as some visualization he obtained are quite striving.
NTT DoCoMo is organising a competition for scenario construction about the impact of mobile technology in the future city:
Few tools have become as widely accepted in everyday life in recent years as cell phones. Keitai (“portable”), the shortened term for a cell phone, has come to mean much more than a portable communication terminal; the keitai has become an indispensable tool for constructing the infrastructure of everyday life; the term has taken on a greatly expanded significance to mean new lifestyle media. How is the city, our immediate environment, developing under these circumstances? In times of great change, the city, in keeping with, or in critical reaction to, that change, has also undergone changes of guise or structure. What sorts of conditions will the city generate in the future, as the keitai becomes an integral part of our lifestyle?
Feedster is introducing a Tag This widget that blog authors can include in their posts for readers to anonymously tag posts. A volunteer manual way of building a database. After you enter a tag, you get to see the list of tags for the post, but they don’t link anywhere so the reward for the effort is unfulfilling.
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Found today this nice application that allows me to use my G5 display to work with my powerbook applications. I think it is useful mostly for writing things on a bigger screen when you are in the range of a mac with a bigger screen.
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