Great news, the workshop that Jie-Eun Hwang, Shin’ichi Komoni, George Roussos and I have organized:”Investigation of Pervasive Shopping in Convenience Stores” has been accepted for the workshop program at the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing :). See you in Nara!
Thanks to Christian. I came across this “Teaser for an upcoming documentary, MY PLAYGROUND by Kaspar Astrup Schröder. It is a film about movement, tricking and parkour (By Team JIYO) in the urban space“. With interview of urban planners, local (Danish) politicians, architects (Friends of CM), philosophers…
MY PLAYGROUND - TEASER from KASPARWORKS on Vimeo.
IPCity (FP-2004-IST-4-27571) is a EU funded Sixth Framework programme Integrated project on Interaction and Presence in Urban Environments.
The research aim of the IPCity project is to investigate analytical and technological approaches to presence in real life settings. Analytically, this includes extending the approaches to presence accounting for the participative and social constitution of presence, the multiplicity and distribution of events in time and space.
Technologically, this translates into developing portable environments for on-site configuration, mobile and light-weight mixed reality interfaces with the ambition to weave them into “the fabric of everyday life”. Methodologically, this calls for moving “out of the lab” with field trials in real settings, applying a triangulation of disciplines and methods for evaluation. These range from interpretative-ethnographic to quasi-experimental approaches and include cognitive science, social-psychological, and cultural-anthropological disciplines.
The vision of the IPCity project is to provide citizens, visitors, as well as professionals involved in city development or the organisation of events with a set of technologies that enable them to collaboratively envision, debate emerging developments, experience past and future views or happenings of their local urban environment, discovering new aspects of their city. This includes:
Extending analytical frameworks for presence, including the participative constitution of presence, the role of (shared) memory and mutual understanding, temporal fluctuations and interruptions (design for non-disruptiveness).
Developing an environment for MR interaction prototyping and a platform and toolkit for cross reality content authoring.
A range of building blocks and components ranging from mobile and lightweight mixed reality for situated participation to semi-stationary outdoor mixed reality environments that exploit the features of the surrounding physical environment.
The showcases include urban renewal projects, large scale events, and explorative edutainment and story telling applications.
Thank you Thomas!
“The SMS Guerilla Projector is a home made, fully functioning device that enables the user to project text based SMS messages in public spaces, in streets, onto people, inside cinemas, shops, houses…
Small, portable, and battery operated, the SMS Guerilla Projector contains a mobile phone which enables the device to receive and project messages from other people.
The SMS Guerilla Projector is made by recombining available technologies. As an open object, the projector generates a wide range of applications, allowing the user to display messages and share his reflections.
Its unpredictability creates a very special and disturbing experience for the people who watch the projection, and invites them to reflect on the content or the implications of the message.The images below show actual examples of projected messages.”
A project by TROIKA. More of the project here.
ALVISO, CA & ANN ARBOR, MI — November 17, 2008 — TV has never tasted this good. That’s because TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), and Domino’s Pizza, Inc. (NYSE: DPZ), the recognized world leader in pizza delivery, have teamed up to give broadband connected TiVo subscribers the ability to order pizza for delivery or pick-up, and track delivery timing, right from their TV sets using the TiVo® service. It’s a service that cooks up the perfect pizza purchasing recipe.
Eating habits have changed! There is much to say about food and technology… Food and TV…
Until recently, the most widely credited individual inventor of the TV dinner was Gerry Thomas, a salesman for C.A. Swanson & Son in 1953. For example, the American Frozen Food Institute honored him in their “Frozen Food Hall of Fame” as the inventor of the TV dinner. However, his role as the inventor is now being disputed.
Find below some links:
500 years of American food.
Hungry men don’t go disco.
Space food.
TiVo press release.
Info via l’Internet Des Objets.
Telegraph article by Matthew Moore (10 Nov 2008) ‘Odourprinting’ could be used to identify people:
Human beings could one day be identified by our smells, according to research that shows individual “odourprints” cannot be masked by diet. […] Eating powerful foods such as chili or garlic may change how we smell, but it does not disguise our underlying genetically-determined aroma, tests on mice have shown. Creatures who were given strong-smelling foods were still recognised by their peers.
Information via We Make Money Not Art… Regine’s delicious bookmarks.
While I am in the region, I am re-blogging Tim Brown’s post: Design thinking in Dubai. Check also Nussbaum’s post: World Economic Forum, Dubai; the Design Manifesto:
Design is being used to:
· Gain insight about people’s needs and desires
· Build strategic foresight to discover new opportunities
· Generate creative possibilities
· Invent, prototype and test novel solutions of value
· Deliver solutions into the world as innovations adopted at scale…
Thank you to Jeffrey Huang, I attended the Copenhagen Innovation Symposium… Here are few notes and pictures:
Daniel Hjorth, professor at CBS: Entrepreneurs bring creativity to an organization but shuffle old mindsets… which can be difficult to deal with. An entrepreneurial spirit is an act of resistance against the continuity of institutions. “Every new idea faces old dogmas”. “When you open-up, you loose control”.
Roberto Verganti: Presented two case studies, the Wii, and Alessi’s kettle 9093 designed by Michael Graves in 1985 to discuss about the difference between design-driven innovation and users-centric innovation. Users-centric innovation is about “How do you understand how people give meaning to things” while design-driven innovation is about “How do you change meanings of things”. Design + Technology makes innovation possible. Users-centric investigators are not experts in any given area, while design-driven researchers are highly skilled “interpreters” [NB: I would prefer the word TRANSlator for that it relates to movement. So we are almost talking about nomads versus settlers here!]. For doing something RADICALLY different you need to do research… and design is about that. Design is about the innovation of meanings. “Design-driven is innovative, while users-centric is imitative”.
Richard L. Nolan: “Professor Nolan is studying business transformation, the process of creatively destroying industrial economy management principles and evolving a set of workable management principles for the information economy.” Nolan presented the Boeing case-study. Innovation processes varies on a scale from a simple process (The single artist) to a highly complex and integrated process (global network). “What causes companies to change? … The HELL of a CRISIS!” In 2003, Airbus was a fierce competitor to Boeing. To win the competition, Boeing built a 21stC plant, TRANSFORMED the company and worked on the 787 Dreamliner (Nolan was on the project). The 787 is “3.5 millions parts flying together in close formation”. It is highly high-tech and no failure is permitted… There was the challenge of transforming management, with so many parts being designed and built in various locations. Information technology is central to management innovation.
Thomas presented the Danfoss Universe, Man on the Moon project, which is an internal competition meant to foster creativity within large corporations. “How do we get to know about knowledge in a company?”. As explained on the homepage, “Entrepreneurs are not necessarily people who start up their own businesses. Plenty of employees also have the right idea for the next big hit product in an existing company. Impact helps to realise that potential with its Man on the Moon concept“. Team winners are rewarded with an educational support (By working with education and research establishment like Harvard and MIT), and with the implementation of their project.
Jeffrey Huang: Architecture has been radically transformed. Buildings are a dying species. Technology challenges the way people do things in the physical space. [NB: I found interesting the way Jeff listed a list of verbs like “Play”, “Work”, “Shop”… The list of verbs I used for my blog categories made suddenly sense]. Each of these actions have changed with technology. Technology has also an effect on the cost of transactions. New building typologies (On the back end as well as on the front end) have emerged: call centers, server farms, gaming environment, physical portals to the virtual world like the Google store in NYC… The workplace has been challenged by the 24/7 and visualization, the increased complexity of problems, and the war on talent. OPEN DESIGN shifts the authorship and control to design, so the need of a new design paradigm. Jeffrey showed the 2001 House of the Teachers project, Blinkenlights, by the European largest hacker group, Chaos Computer Club. [As I was hypertexting for more information on the project, I found an interesting article by Peter Hall: Living Skins, Architecture as Interface. Here is the living_skins .pdf.
R.M. Mason showed us the contrast in attitude and style between digital natives and baby boomers (Baby Boomers: born between 1946-1964, Generation X: 1965-1977, Millenials (Digital Natives): 1978-1994):
Find here a .pdf of interest: netnativesreport. Mason also mentioned Kzero research, “The industry leader in understanding the marketing dynamics relating to virtual world”. Find here Kzero’s map of Virtual World of Registered Accounts 2008.
Tony Buono has been researching Leading Innovation in Knowledge Intensive Firms (I.e. consultancies). Organizational changes are determined by two different factors, the business complexity (If you have similar stake holders and a common location or diverse stakeholders and multiple locations) and the socio-technical uncertainty (From definitive to non definitive solution). There are three different organizational changes, directed (Top down), planned (Road map) and guided (Evolving).
What is innovation?
D. Hjorth: “Innovation is about the gaps”
Roberto Verganti: “Innovation is about creating new meanings”
Professor Flemming Poulfelt has initiated the CBS Leadership Lab along with Robert Austin, Daniel Hjorth…
A big applause also for the organization: thank you Nicolaj!
Currently in the UAE, where I have discovered that mall walking is a serious activity (The Mall of the Emirates in Dubai offers such service):
According to about.com, the advantages are:
Out of the weather: Inside a climate controlled mall, walkers can dress comfortably and not worry about wind, rain, snow, ice, heat.
Away from the traffic: No intersections to cross, broken glass or bushes obstructing the path, auto fumes or rush hour.
Security: Walking with others and with mall security on duty.
Restrooms and water: always nearby in the mall.Walkers get a jump on other shoppers as the stores finally open in the morning, a big advantage during the holiday shopping season. No wonder mall merchants support walking programs, it ensures loyal customers who return several times a week.
Free blood pressure checks, low cost or free cholesterol screenings, presentations by health and exercise experts are other perks for mall walkers. The mall walking club may organize to take groups to charity walking events or other organized outdoor walks.
PS: The Mall of the Emirates is the one with the ski slopes:
