Near Future Laboratory Blog
Thoughts, Reflections, Updates & Week Notes
Apr 8, 2003 – Apr 16, 2003
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Apr 16, 2003
Few notes of a discussion with my phd director (messy and in french sorry) Il faut pour ma thèse quelqeu chose de visionnaire mais pas casse-gueule, il faut une application précise
Nicolas Nova
Research
Apr 16, 2003
How come weblogs, awareness and transactive memory are related ?
Nicolas Nova
Research
Apr 14, 2003
Marketing people try to categorize people by building profile in order to sell them the most appropriate stuff. I’ve listed below few so-called “profiles” : ‘balanced enjoyers’, ‘inside explorers’, ‘cool followers’, ‘status seekers’, ‘asian aspirers’, ‘trendsetters’ (this one is too simple :), ‘fun loving youth’, ‘p…
Nicolas Nova
General
Apr 14, 2003
J’ai lu un texte très intéressant de Gilles Deleuze (dans Pourparlers, 1990) : “Post-Scriptum sur les sociétés de contrôle” qui traite du glissement qui s’opère actuellement des sociétés disciplinaires apparues au XVIIIème (famille, école, usine, hopital, prison). Ces institutions sont finies, seule leur agonie est…
Nicolas Nova
General
Apr 10, 2003
I’ve made a brief review of the cognitive functions that should be fullfilled for collaborative work:Group memory/Storing the context/Group mirrors/Conflict/disagreement/Explanation/Internalization/Appropriation/Shared cognitive load/Mutual regulation/Social grounding/Division of labor/Building a shared understandin…
Nicolas Nova
Research
Apr 10, 2003
I was thinking of innovatives ways to use mobile devices for educational purposes. We could propose a kind of game in a city where players have to collaborate (different roles could be assigned), performing a joint acivity where they need to negotiate. Maybe I could use something like that to test the effects of loc…
Nicolas Nova
General
Apr 10, 2003
I have written a paper for the International Conference on Groupware in Autrans, France (Sunday 28, September – Thursday 2, October 2003). Here is the abstract :
Nicolas Nova
Research
Apr 09, 2003
Social Space is a crux issue. It should be considered as the cornerstone of joint activities and hence to collaborative work/learning. This space is build considering the traces left in the environment (virtual or not) by people. We all send signals into social space that can be decoded by others as trace for a pote…
Nicolas Nova
Research
Apr 08, 2003
I really like this quote from Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency :
Nicolas Nova
General