I’ve been fixated on a story my wandering mind told me many months ago about a little theory object that forced me to think about how the connected things in the era of IP networks always do their thing as fast as possible, approaching speeds that are imperceptible to normal humans. Almost without question, this is…

The work in mapping the connection between physical geography and virtual representations of that geography is a component of the work I have done that is relevant to the question as to what the basis of my tenure case is. In retrospect, I realize that I picked up the story in the middle, and that there is a precedi…

For the last 10 years, I have been working on ways to represent and visualize physical, geographic space using portable, mobile, networked digital technologies. (Cf. an Extended Research Statement.) This work makes use of the many mechanisms available to describe geographic space — including mobile devices, wirele…

Ideasonair.net is fantastic. It’s like an idea a day. It’s fantastic to see project ideas shared and documented this way. I wish I found more of this, just little sprinkles from a project notebook, shared and documented electronically.

Great questions from Sascha Pohflepp that helped me figure out what the heck I do and why the heck I do it.

The Economist had a short article titled Let’s Get Physical on “exergaming” — gaming that combines play with exercise. At the same time, Fabien wrote a thought-provoking blog post on the Nokia Sports Tracker and Tracing Personal Mobility. This stuff got me thinking about these weak-signals around exercise, play,…

Here’s the v03 Flavonoid prototype pretty much all assembled, except for attaching a battery on back and the DS1340 real-time clock and its crystal — you can see the landing pad there near the center.. I’d be surprised if this all works. I mean..something must be wrong, right?

Trying to come up with some “log line” style idioms to describe the whole vector of near future research I’m doing around game gestures that elongate the scales of motion, time and contact (proximity, touch, etc.) that electronic games have completely shrunk down to nil. There’s definitely a trend towards considerin…

This is a 1st Life / 2nd Life game that is based on paper-based word-finder games. In this game, you try to identify dictionary words within a grid of letters and circle them. In this variation, the landscape becomes the game grid and you have to walk (or run!) to generate a virtual line that runs through the letter…