http://www.movino.org/application/mobile March 30, 2008

http://www.movino.org/application/mobile
A really cool application that captures video using your phone and sends it to your desktop computer, turns your N95 into a portable wireless video camera.

Situated <3 Nokia (AKA Unboxing Pics! w00000000) March 27, 2008

A week late, but here they are!

Looks like we are shooting for 80 degree horizontal field of view March 27, 2008

“http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=wide+angle+webcam&sa=N&start=0“
A google blog search, reveals a few companies making cameras with 80 degree optical fields of view.  Mouly’s selected camera has 200degree (range of view), and a ~78-76 degree optical field of view.

Exiting the cleanroom: on ecological validity and ubiquitous computing March 27, 2008

Exiting the cleanroom: on ecological validity and ubiquitous computing is a paper on prototyping, observation, controlled evaluation and field experiments of Ubicomp. There are three class of ubicomp applications: peripheral displays, mobile applications, and applications that integrate physical and digital interactions. Idiosyncrasies with ubicomp applications are due to the need for applications to be in [...]

The Wide Angle Lens Cowboy March 27, 2008

There’s this guy that’s some kind of webcam review guru. He’s also apparently a cowboy. He devotes part of his website to trying to figure out the lens angles of popular webcams. It looks like a few creative and Logitech cams offer a fairly wide angle. Check out the site to figure out which one [...]

Wide Angle web cams March 26, 2008

I searched for “wide angle web camera” for our display. Creative webcam ultra seems to be good. Many products do not specify the exact vertical and horizontal angels covered.

Creative Web cam. 200° horizontal and 105° vertical view. It costs $129. Product page.

http://research.nokia.com/projects/activity_monitor March 24, 2008

http://research.nokia.com/projects/activity_monitor
Accelerometer stuff

Semi-public displays March 20, 2008

While I was looking for papers on collaborative  reminder systems, I found the paper titled:  Semi-Public Displays for Small, Co-located Groups. This paper discussed the applications developed by the authors for small collocated groups. The public displays in this setting are meant to be source of ambient information about the group members.

Reminders – slide show [...]

Post your apps to the Michiposter March 18, 2008

Hey team, we should all post our apps to the MichiPoster.  So that they will show up on the display occasionally.
-Ben

SSAPP Running on N800 Tablet March 18, 2008

So we received some goodies from nokia, and I spent pretty much all the whole night fooling around with an n800. I now have SSAPP’s fast bluetooth scanner running on a n800. What does this mean for you? It means very little except that it’s possible to do some pretty serious [...]