links for 2008-07-11

Nova on representations of imagined online places/spaces: “Working on both fields of video games and urban computing, I find interesting to observe the relationship between the image of the city and its physical counterpart. For that matter, it seems that

(tags: anticipation future maps cartography geography endofcyberspace diagram materiality futurism)

Nova on the changing face of the differentiation between user and bystander in ubicomp games: “The presence of bystanders in some pervasive games or ARG is interesting as it shows how the notion of “user” in ubiquitous computing is flawed. Unlike face

(tags: computing games pervasive mobile ubicomp context endofcyberspace experimentation participation pervasive_computing scienceX2 urbancomputing)

Fabien Girardin on ‘sentient cities’ research: “In this presentation I discussed the deployment of new urban actors as instigators of new types of data at the source of a sentient city. These new technologies should not be perceived as drivers of urban ch

(tags: ubicomp urban urbancomputing mediation materiality place-space spatiality geography endofcyberspace city sensors cosmopolitics)