the current issue of vodafones receiver magazine on space and location is one of the best yet. every week the editors invite another thoughtful thinker to contribute an essay on the topic and this week the honour goes to anne galloway.
anne galloway blog recently completed a phd in sociology and anthropology at carleton university ottawa canada which invo...... [Show More]
a few thoughts on the state of research in urban informatics sketched from here and there
with a few workshops e.g. digital cities urbansense realtime cities looslyrelated conferences e.g. cupum books e.g. handbook of research on urban informatics journal special issues e.g. ieee computer ieee pervasive computing dispersed resear...... [Show More]
after a summer of dense project coordination and urban data analysis time is slowly coming to frame the content of my phd thesis dissertation. i plan to submit it in march 2009 with a timeline composed of 3 months to complete the current deep dig analysis of digital breadcrums followed by another 3 months early next year of compiling and writing the dissertation. discussions with my...... [Show More]
pulse laser offon or whatever happened to availabot
so we decided to treat availabot as a world probe it was decided that we would take availabot through to the position of being factory ready and in the process learn as much as possible about the processes of manufacture and how to develop these kind of complex products with so many moving parts. and best news of all avai...... [Show More]
anne galloway of purse lip square jaw has published her phd thesis entitled a brief history of the future of urban computing and locative media.
it builds on available sociological approaches to understanding everyday life in the networked city to show that emergent technologies reshape our experiences of spatiality temporality and embodiment.
following urban computin...... [Show More]
like many other blogsa we here at biomedicine on display ahave a long list ofap otentially useful life science and healthmedical blog linksall those sites which together constitute the hypertextual inspiration base foraour web presence.
it would be great if these could be visualised as a blogroll cloud like a tag cloud or a category cloud. so far i havent se...... [Show More]
this is a writeup of my diploma project in interaction design from the oslo school of architecture and design . the project is entitled adventures in urban computing and this weblog post contains a brief project description and a pdf of the diploma report.
this diploma project is an expedition into urban computing an emerging multidisciplinary research field that focuses on...... [Show More]
architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space of modulating reality and engendering dreams...the architecture of tomorrow will be a means of modifying present conceptions of time and space. it will be both a means of knowledge and a means of action. architectural complexes will be modifiable. their appearance will change totally or partially in accordance with the will of thei.... [Show More]
dr. anne galloway Post Source: www.activesocialplastic.com Posted: Jul 12 2008 11:22:52
when i met anne galloway in 2003 i had just begun my professorship at the interaction design institute ivrea. she was one of the first people i would meet working on a ph.d. that dealt with design in some way she pursued it from a sociological and anthropological perspective. meeting anne was a revelation shes been a great source of inspiration for me as ive moved from the world...... [Show More]
from putting people first by mark vanderbeeken
polite pertinent and pretty designing for the new wave of personal informatics was the title of a talk given by matt jones dopplr and tom coates yahoo brickhouse at the recent web 2.0 expo in san francisco.
summarising their talk is not an easy thing to do but i will give it a ...... [Show More]
dissertation Post Source: grinding.be Posted: Jul 10 2008 02:34:13
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i like the dissertation title and the image they chose to go along with it. good luck...... [Show More]
i wanted to point our readers to three interesting forth coming41 publications that have been announced lately.
friday july 11th anne galloway will defend her dissertation titled a brief history of the future of urban computing and locative media. i am very much looking forward to reading the whole book and anne has been so kind to already put the introduction online.
by focussin...... [Show More]
bye june Post Source: mtl3p.ilesansfil.org Posted: Jun 30 2008 19:34:45
more criticalness of the olpc
such are the challenges of introducing not just a strange new machine but an alien world to a child brought up in isolation from outside culture. the leaders of olpc believe the laptops must be much more than electronic substitutes for textbooks if they are to profoundly effect learning. the group an offshoot of mits media lab which negroponte launched 23 ...... [Show More]
mended spiderwebs Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Jun 22 2008 07:28:51
artist nina katchadourian lists the mended spiderweb series as an uninvited collaboration with nature and i dont know what is more impressive that she tried to repair broken webs or that the spiders rejected her mends and properly repaired them....... [Show More]
peer review 2.0 tomorrows scholarship for todays students
loex of the west las vegas
annemarie deitering kate gronemyer
web 2.0 background
five web 2.0 themes from the acrl instruction sections current issues discussion forum research instruction in a web 2.0 world annual 2006.
danah boyd examples
danah boyd openaccess is...... [Show More]
something of a followup post to the recent transport informatics survey . a recent conversation with jarrett walker a consultant based here in
sydney popped up the following thought. jarrett experienced in
metropolitan transit systems was thinking through ideas around fare
pricing given the new possibilities enabled by fully automated systems.
design of fare structures ha...... [Show More]
so flickr finally ended the years of rumourmongering and actually rolled out video. i was interested to see the way the official announcement carefully positioned the purposes of video on flickr within the companys tasteful cosmopolitan playfully grownup brand identity and its focus on selfcreated content
we thought long and hard about how video would complement the fli...... [Show More]
the legendary duel between a technologist and a marketer is a well known one. most would claim that they are the extremes and one that cannot be subdued. in every company especially one that specializes in building products everyone has a tough time balancing the interactions that go on between these two sets of people. how well you do the balancing act will have a lot to say about the processes..... [Show More]
watching Post Source: grinding.be Posted: Apr 07 2008 12:09:51
if youre trying to get the book from an online bookseller and seeing an estimated delivery of 1 week its because the first printing of htuw has sold out. the second printing was due in warehouses yesterday april 4 and should be shipping shortly. in the meanwhile you can print and read the 50page introduction as well as chapter 4 which discusses extreme workstudy8...... [Show More]
treat them like crap Post Source: www.digital-rights.net Posted: Mar 26 2008 13:42:43
explaining the inner workings of the university to outsiders is complicated enough my family and friends dont get what the university is or how it works and often enough the comments that i have sta yed in university are flung at me as if this is a simple cosy sinecure. ignore the fact that we have an incredible series of qualifications both formal and informal ig...... [Show More]
via youtubes new recommended for you feature and also via twitter i found this really excellent reimagining of the star wars title sequence as if created by the great designer and filmmaker saul bass
via the related videos feature i came across basss wonderful short film why man creates which won an academy award in 1968. only the first 5 minutes is a...... [Show More]
about a year ago violin virtuoso joshua bell played the street musician occupied a washington d.c. subway station and gave brilliant performances of classical music.
the washington post asked about the moral mathematics of the moment
each passerby had a quick choice to make one familiar to commuters in any urban area where the occasional street performer is part of ...... [Show More]
ive finally managed to find the time to read mike crang and stephen graham s recent paper sentient cities ambient intelligence and the politics of urban space and its really good
as ive said many times grahams work on networked urbanism is superb and crangs work on space culture and ethnography is also exemplary. compared to american a...... [Show More]
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