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Cities, Systems, Literacy, Games

In Articles on 23 December 2008 tagged architecture, buildings, cities, everyware, futures, games, literacy, modelling, play, systems, the real-time city, urbanism with 7 comments

If you were asked to improve your own neighbourhood, what would you change? And how would you go about communicating those changes?

Cities are systems, or rather, many systems that interconnect. Like buildings, they can be thought of as having layers, each changing at its own pace. If those layers are loosely coupled, the city [...]

Urban Procedural Rhetorics — Transcript of My TWAB 2008 Talk

In Talks on 27 May 2008 tagged 2008, alternate reality games, architecture, ARGs, cameras, cities, conferences, control, culture, events, everyware, flash mobs, free running, freedom, game design, GD, graffiti, hoaxes, interaction design, IxD, LED throwies, Mario Question Blocks, mobility, physical computing, play, politics, presentations, privacy, procedural rhetoric, Provo, public space, security, September 12, skateboarding, slides, street art, surveillance, Talks, The Web and Beyond 2008: Mobility, TWAB, TWAB 2008, TWAB08, ubicomp, ubiquitous computing, UFOs, urbanism, user experience, UX, Zona Incerta with 21 comments

This is a transcript of my presentation at The Web and Beyond 2008: Mobility in Amsterdam on 22 May. Since the majority of paying attendees were local I presented in Dutch. However, English appears to be the lingua franca of the internet, so here I offer a translation. I have uploaded the slides to SlideShare [...]

Zona Incerta and Using ARGs for Activism

In Articles on 23 April 2008 tagged activism, alternaterealitygames, ARGs, everyware, games, gaming, March Hare, play, ubicomp, Zona Incerta with 2 comments

(Following some recent overly long posts, here’s an attempt to stay under 500 words.)

For a while now, I have been lurking on the mailing list of the Alternate Reality Games IGDA SIG. ARGs are games that use the real world as their platform. They usually revolve around a mystery to be unraveled. I find ARGs [...]

UX Designers Should Get Into Everyware

In Articles on 5 April 2007 tagged Adam Greenfield, ambient, books, design, everyware, IA, information architecture, interaction design, IxD, pervasive, physical computing, quotes, tangible, ubicomp, ubiquitous, user experience, UX with 7 comments

I’ve been reading Adam Greenfield’s Everyware on and off and one of the things that it has me wondering the most lately is: are UX professionals making the move to design for ubiquitous computing?

There’re several places in the book where he explicitly mentions UX in relation to everyware. Let’s have a look at the ones [...]

Albert Heijn RFID Epiphany

In Articles on 20 March 2007 tagged Albert Heijn, everyware, future, physical, RFID, shopping, tangible, ubicomp with 8 comments

I was standing in line at the local Albert Heijn1 the other day and had a futurist’s ‘epiphany’. I had three items in my basket. The couple in front of me had a shopping cart full of stuff. I had an empty stomach and was tired from a long day’s work. They were taking their [...]

Een Internet Der Dingen (open.info.nl)

In Articles on 7 April 2006 tagged elsewhere, everyware, Info.nl, internet of things, tangible computing, ubicomp with no comments

“De web 2.0-hype een beetje beu? Moe van het bijhouden van alle start-ups die als paddestoelen uit de grond blijven schieten? Maak je borst maar nat, want er volgt spoedig (weer) iets nieuws. Niet web 3.0 (het web-OS), maar iets écht nieuws: het internet der dingen

Parallel aan al het social software-geweld en de semantische web-discussies [...]