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Transportation in Context
The transportation and development process Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) emerged from the 1998 Thinking Beyond the Pavement conference, where participants sought to define a set of professional values that would increase transparency ...
Storytelling with Cards and Cubes
London-based think tank Proboscis provides a setting in which artists and scholars can explore the relationship between individuals, communities, and the environment, and create tools through which people can articulate their own ...
Making the World A Better Place One Geek at a Time
Geekcorps pairs socially-conscious technology experts with communities to promote development and inter-connectivity. The group tackles these issues on three broad fronts: information technology, business development, and education. To meet the broadest range of ...
A Walk in the Park
Friday, September 21, will be National Park(ing) Day. Originally developed by the San Francisco art collective REBAR, the event encourages cities to convert metered parking spaces into temporary parks, providing ...
XO-1 V.S. Speak & Spell
The XO-1 (nee OLPC, nee $100 laptop), for those who don't know, is a computing platform developed specifically for young children in developing nations. It has been designed from scratch ...
Making Money off Mashups
People have been building exciting and creative web mashupss, but most mashup developers haven't yet figured out how to make them profitable. Fortunately, IDELIX Software has developed a new ...
Chi Review: Qualities of Perceived Aesthetic in Data Visualization
Great (and content packed) talk by Nick Cawthon, University of Sydney, Australia. Fair warning, Alt.Chi presentations aren't considered archival by the Chi community (although maybe they should be). Abstract:Through results gathered from a ...
Recycled Canvas Beta Report Highlights / Version 1.0
As we wind down our beta period for Recycled Canvas we're in the process of preparing an internal report of some of the results. We're planning on getting the Recycled Canvas ...
Notes from the recycling center (week one)
A few days into our recycled experiment and there are already some neat things happening. We've seen quite a few downloads (500 or so) of the theme both from here as well ...
Additional notes on Recycled Canvas
I just wanted to write some additional notes to anyone downloading the theme to try out. It is customizable, and the view you see when you install it isn't the only option. The ...
CHI - Design of Spatial Applications nearly Full
If you are attending or thinking of attending CHI 2007 this year, my course offering "The Design of Spatial Applications" is almost full. If you think you are interested in ...
Mousetracking for fun (but not profit)
Creative Synthesis is now set up for mousetracking. Here is some of the activity, you can see where people held the mouse longer (bigger, darker circles). If you want to see something like ...
Be kind to the web, please recycle your research.
As we near the target deadline for releasing our prototype recycled research project, it makes sense to talk a little bit about what we mean. Here is an overview of the project, ...
Sugar and spice for the $100 laptop
I was reading this article from Business Week (.com) about the face of the $100 laptop. I've been spending a lot of face time with the laptop lately, as part of ...