Christien Meindertsma, Makers & Spectators from robertanderson on Vimeo.
Interesting exhibition organized by Christien Meinderstma at MU, a space for contemporary art and design in Eindhoven. Makers & Spectators 2009 was an exhibition to analyze the way visitors look at different things.
Quite intriguing the article “Limits of Predictability in Human Mobility” published at Science Magazine in Feb 2010. Here are some interesting excerpts: (more…)
“Though Foursquare is often used to find out which locations are most frequented by the people you know, a new website inversely uses it to determine when places are visited the least. When Should I Visit? uses data gathered from Foursquare to find the (more…)
From TEDActive blog: “In recent months the buzz around renting and sharing and communities making the most of what they have is increasing. Rachel Bostman spoke about the phenomenon of the Rise of Collaborative Consumption in TEDxSydney in (more…)
“Would you know if a dear, but seldom seen, friend happened to be on the same train as you? The proximeter is both an agent that tracks the past and future proximity of one’s social cloud, and an instrument that charts this in an ambient display. (more…)
Compass phone (2007) by Hayeon Yoo is a mobile device that aims to promote users’ communication based on their geographic position. It does not support any conversation. When one person calls the other the device uses its embedded GPS to (more…)
While doing some research for my Christmas trip to the Himalayas I found out that most of the dangerous cases of altitude sickness occur when people are hiking in groups. This is because trekkers are tempted to speeding up once they see others walking faster. Contrary to my initial feeling, it seems that the less company somebody has in a tour, the better. I then (more…)
