links for 2008-04-09
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“More than 1,000 youngsters are taking part in the two-year study into their physical activity and eating behaviour. Global Positioning System (GPS) watches and waist monitors are worn to measure their movements to and from school.”
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“The Digital Geographics Group at Microsoft Research India seeks to further the state-of-the-art in the representation, analysis, and visualization of digitized geographic information. As location-aware technologies such as GPS and geographic information
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Microsoft’s ubicomp research page (apparently)
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“Every object has a story to tell, and some of those stories are pretty important… the labels on objects only tell a part of that story”
“This video provides a brief overview of the AURA project, which builds communities of people scanning bar-codes.” -
The Microsoft Community Technologies Group, which aims:
“To collect, measure, map, and explore data about social cyberspaces focusing on conversation and discussion environments.”
“To design and prototype collective interaction tools, interfaces, and vi -
“Origami is a code name for a small project with big plans. Our team wants to make Ultra-Mobile PCs a device you won’t leave home without, but we need your help…”
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Commentary on the Microsoft “vision of a future health service” video.
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A ‘future vision’ of banking, including ‘magical’ gadgets with all the fantastical bells and whistles one might desire, from Microsoft’s Industry Innovation Group
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“When Brian [Eno] first moved to New York City he found that in New York here and now meant this room and this five minutes, as opposed to the larger here and longer now that he was used to in England. We have since adopted the term as the title of our fo
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