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Archive for March, 2008

Signless One-way Paths for Pedestrians

March 31, 2008
Signless One-way Paths for Pedestrians

When I was at university getting from class to class between buildings meant fighting your way along a footpath against a flow of students coming the opposite direction. Solutions? You could widen the path (more concrete) or redesign the pathway using a similar width of concrete split into two paths, one for each direction. Here...
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Adaptive Shop Facades

March 20, 2008

If all our building’s internal walls, signage as well as dynamic displays where flat panel displays what would happen? I was walking through a mall a few days ago and realised that pretty much all that I could see around me could be displayed on flat panels like those in Minority Report. There are...
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Internet All The Way Down

March 20, 2008

“STEPS Toward The Reinvention of Programming” has a great piece about the promise of a uniform model of computation based on arbitrary decomposition to the internet. On p32 they say: Part of the solution to “an Internet all the way down” has interesting conflicts with today’s hardware and we are curious to see just how...
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Omniface or Common Face Technology

March 19, 2008

The time for personal universal controllers to make their debut is fast approaching. Research at CMU shows that control panels on PDAs can be both faster and less error prone than the hardwired interface provided by manufacturers. At least since 2003 far sighted people have been imagining a future where each person...
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The consultant’s dilemma

March 8, 2008

‘‘we are known by the issues we are associated with, and by what happens to those issues when they are decided.’’ Pfeffer, J.: 1994, Managing With Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations (Harvard Business School Press, Boston)
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