Show me the Way To the Next Whisky Bar

CatchBob! Communication with SOAP

First version of CatchBob! on TablePC is almost over. Stroke, Position and Command objects are passed around using SOAP. To fullfil the task, each player has:

- a proximity sensor
- indication of the quality of the network
- the position of the other players
- the ability to receive and give directional advices/commands
- the ability to share free annotations on the map

The channels of communication can now be narrowed or broaden at ease.

Meet you There!

In XXI century, people stopped meeting at the coffee machine:

A La Fin d'une Thèse…

Create a Java Web Start with QuickJNLP

QuickJNLP is a utility allows regular Java applications to be deployed with Web Start. It packs all the necessary files for the application into a Jar file and generates a corresponding JNLP file. The original java application does not need to modified in any way for use with Web Start.

ActiveCampus

ActiveCampus is a ShoutSpace and WiTeach like system. It aims to provide location-based services for educational networks and understand how such systems are used. activeclass enables collaboration between students and professors by serving as a visual moderator for classroom interaction. ActiveCampus Explorer uses a person’s context, like location, to help engage them in campus life. It uses Place Lab as localization system.

More on:
ActiveCampus: explorations in community-oriented ubiquitous computing

WiFi Location-based Applications at CRAFT

My small presentation on the WiFi location-based applications developed the CRAFT is in ppt. It includes an architectural view of the systems.

Halloween Masks as Political Barometer

Via CNNmoney.com, sales of Halloween masks have correctly predicted the results of the last six presidential elections.

Instinct and Responsability

Read in The Social Future as seen by six SF Writers:
Ken Wharton: “Individuals often don’t have the time and/or inclination to dig into any particular issue for themselves, meaning that many people will tend to make decisions using the very instincts that are most easily manipulated.”
Pat Murphy: “I feel that the more powerful the government is, the less people take the personal responsability. And what we need now is more personal responsability, not less.”
Ken Wharton: “[swing-voters] are so overburdened with busy lives that they’re running just as fast they can to stay in the same place“.

Week-end en Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur