Category: Web/Tech
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Social Artificial Intelligence: Objective vs. Subjective Reality (and Representation)
Timo Honkela, Chief Scientist of the Adaptive Informatics Research Centre at the Helsinki University of Technology, and head of the Computational Cognitive Systems group there, visited Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, today, and presented a talk on Social Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Devices. Timo stressed the importance of viewing intelligence in a social context (vs.…
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Computer Supported Cooperative Whatever: Reflections on Work, Play and Passion at CSCW 2006
As I reflected upon the reflections that were offered during the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2006) last week — and some of my notes on CSCW 2006 — a promiment theme that emerged [for me] was the tension between professionalism and playfulness. The conference, which celebrated its 20th year anniversary this…
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CSCW 2006: Notes on the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
The ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2006) was held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, last week. The conference, which celebrated its 20th year anniversary this year, included 62 papers and notes, dozens of demonstrations and interactive posters, three panels and a pair of keynotes, and was attended by approximately 400 people. Unfortunately, due…
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Everyone’s a Nerd About Something: The Network Effects of Social Mobile Media
Marc Davis, Social Media Guru at Yahoo!, gave a far ranging presentation on "Mobile Media: Connecting Context, Content and Community" at the Stanford Mobile Computing Seminar this week. Marc started out highlighting the imbalance between the proportion of people who currently consume and produce text and consume other types of digital media (music, photos, videos),…
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I Spy Eye Spy Advertising: Urinal Based Display Marketing and Captive Micro-audiences
I had lunch at Illusions Fayrouz Dining and Entertainment Club yesterday, and when I used the men’s room after the meal, I discovered a set of small, currently inactive, display units above each urinal. The web site listed on the display unit, www.eyespyadvertising.com, is "currently under construction" and I can’t find any other information out…
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Spiritual Computing: Toward Meaningful, perhaps Transcendental, User Experiences
Craig Warren Smith visited Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, on Thursday to present and discuss some ideas relating to Spiritual Computing. As Craig describes it: Spiritual Computing (Spiricomp) elicits the potential of digital networks for fostering the spiritual growth among individuals and communities. … The investigative method of Spiricomp is unusual. Made possible by HH…
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Bruce Sterling on Shaping Things through SPIMES: Technosocial Transformations for a Sustainable World
Bruce Sterling’s keynote at UbiComp 2006 inspired me to go back and re-read his book Shaping Things, in which he introduces the notion of SPIMES — physical objects with digital histories that can be recorded and tracked through SPace and tIME. I didn’t think all the ideas from this book shined clearly through in his…
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Techno-Spiritual Practices and New Technologies of Enlightenment (A UbiComp 2006 Postscript)
Genevieve Bell, of Intel Research, was unable to attend UbiComp 2006, and so, unfortunately, her paper on "No More SMS from Jesus: Ubicomp, Religion and Techno-spiritual Practices" was not presented at the conference. I read the paper on my return flight, and it was so inspiring I wanted to post a few notes about it.…
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UbiComp 2006: Day 3
Today was the final day of the 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2006). I'm going to include some notes from today's presentations (continuing a series of notes I've posted from day 1 and day 2 of the conference), and finish off with a few reflections on the conference as a whole. Mark Corner,…
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UbiComp 2006: Day 2
It was another engaging day at UbiComp 2006, with a number of good paper presentations (of which, again, I only saw half), videos, an innovative open session and a town hall meeting. Tim Sohn, from UCSD, started things off with a nice presentation on "Mobility Detection Using Everyday GSM Traces". Nearly every talk I’ve seen…