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Protected: Beyond Borders, Experimenting Random Lunch
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DIY in Real Estate: where to live around Paris using your own LivingIndex
I recently started to look for a larger flat around Paris. But where to start? Which district is interesting to investigate since the area is very large? Beyond common information given on an advertising (nb of rooms, square footage,etc) how can I know/ assess the quality of its neighborhood in a more systematic way? Is ...
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Crowdsourcing Satellite Imagery (part 2): Iterative vs. parallel human organisations
In Crowdsourcing Satellite Imagery (part 1) I discussed about the use of a parallel model to organise people in the analysis of satellite imagery , its redundancy property and some meritocratic technics to produce quality data. Here I talk about the qualitative and quantitative differences of 2 organisational models: parallel vs iterative models (wikipedia’s style) ...
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Cyborgs in the mist: fight against planned obsolescence of mankind
I was invited at the Gaity Lyrique to discuss on the fake documentary from Stéphane Degoutin and Gwenola Wagon in which I played the role of a researcher from the LOPH research lab. (Lutte contre l’Obsolescence Programmee de l’Homme/fight against planned obsolescence of mankind). “The film presents the LOPH research lab and its utopian proposals ...
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Mapping the visual perception of travelers in a city using google street view as sensor
Have you ever been impressed by the colorfulness of some Tokyo or New york streets during the nights? A traveler wandering in a city got some inner impressions generated by some visual characteristics of the location e.g. its openness, its colorfulness, its visual complexity or even some higher visual features e.g. its architecture style). Can ...
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Random GPS: Flanerie in the physical network
Baudelaire and the Flanerie at the internet age. The genesis of the idea comes from Stephane Degoutin and Gwenola Wagon about implementing a kind of “I’m feeling lucky” button on navigation devices. What will happen if the device will guide you not according to a target point but in a serendipity way, without any goal, ...
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PotentialCity: Participatory Augmented Audio Reality
I ‘m currently participating in an extension of a artistic project called “Potential City”, initiated by Gwenola Wagon and Stéphane Degoutin, “which aims at increasing the potential of the Forum des Halles in Paris, to put it on scale with the Parisian metropolis.” In the initial version , every participants had a gps mobile phone. ...
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Mining for Social Serendipity
Abstract A common social problem at an event in which people do not personally know all of the other participants is the natural tendency for cliques to form and for discussions to mainly happen between people who already know each other. This limits the possibility for people to make interesting new acquaintances and acts as ...
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Social attention analysis and management in online communities
The objective of this research was to investigate the use of Information and Communication Technologies to support people in analyzing and managing their attention at a social level. People are being overwhelmed by solicitations and opportunities to engage into a social exchange but they have little means about how to deal effectively with this new ...
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My little experience of the recruitment 2.0 ..or 1.1?
A lot of people think recruitment 2.0 is the use of new tools and notably new media to recruit people (e.g. social network sites). This is certainly true. But the major contribution of the web2.0 phenomena is the democratization of the media: everyone can now express his or her opinion and, the most important, be ...
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Idée marketing pour les ressources humaines des SSII
En ce moment je reçois des propositions de SSII. En général leurs emails sont formés de la sorte: “Bonjour Monsieur, bla bla votre profil nous intéresse. Nous sommes ceci cela. cordialement Monsieur X” point. Aucune personnalisation de leur message: Ni mon nom ou prénom, ni les compétences qui les ont intéressées sont mis en avant; ...