Reactable concert featuring Sergi Jordá, Günter Geiger, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Marcos Alonso. The reactable, is a state-of-the-art multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface developed by the Music Technology Group within the Audiovisual Institute at the Pompeu Fabra University.

The same day, I was watching Jeff Han’s presentation on his touch-driven computer screen at TED.

I will go to the TECFA seminar entitled Video Games meet Ubiquitous Computing: The Collective Simulation of a Human Being as well as the CHOROS monthly seminar on Digitally and Space with this month’s topic on “Les echelles de la société de l’information”. The Choros lab recently published the Atlas des mutations spatiales de la Suisse. Finally I will try to attend the CTI’s Réseaux de personnes, réseaux d’objets.

Lunchtime for a urban surfer in Barcelona today. Made me think of BCN Ecologia’s concept of Compact Mediterranean City.

A mobile office?

Enjoying the Freitag truckspotting tower.

to write my research plan in the highly urbanized yet Internet-free Benidorm.

For a TenCompetence project meeting. One aspect of the WP I am involved with deals with the visualization of positioning and navigation within an information system (e.g. a competence development program). I am curious to see how some approaches can be mapped to location-aware systems.

On a side note, I always fin fascinating the struggle of using WiFi in conferences. The constraints are not only technological but also on the way the technology is deployed. Here, breakdowns were due to password-based access restriction with individual passwords, closed protocols (e.g. no VPN), uneven bandwidth, and even a power shortage.

Frankfurt airport