Fornemmelse for mord

Dette er ikke en ny cyberthriller, men et fremtidsrettet innspill der intuisjon tas på alvor i kriminaletterforskning. Ingerid Rødseth ved Institutt for informasjons- og medievitenskap har forsket på hvordan bruk av intuisjon kan støttes i kriminaletterforskning. Hun har fått god hjelp av doktorgradsstudenten Tor Gjøsæter, som har programmert prototypen CrimeSceneAR.

- Intuisjon er bruk av ubevisst kunnskap. Det er en oppsummeringsfunksjon som kan tre i kraft når det er så mye informasjon at man ikke klarer å behandle den bevisst. Man får en intuitiv følelse av at noe er rett eller galt, uten at man vet grunnen til det. Ofte kommer man frem til grunnen senere, forklarer Rødseth til På høyden.

Hun har intervjuet flere kriminaletterforskere om hvordan de bruker intuisjon når de skal løse saker. Prosjektet hennes skal gjøre det enklere å dele intuisjon med andre, og gjøre det til et felles arbeidsverktøy for flere etterforskere.

På Høyden - Fornemmelse for mord

PLACE: Public Libraries - Arenas for Citizenship

An Investigation of the Public Library as a Community Meeting Place Fostering Social Capital in a Digital and Multicultural Context1

1. The general goal of the project

The project aims at investigating the possibility of developing public libraries in multicultural local communities into arenas

• that are experienced as relevant for all groups
• that can function as meeting places in the community promoting social capital
• that fosters the critical mass of cross-cultural communication necessary for democratic processes?

The project relates to concerns regarding social cohesion and integration, community and social capital in the multicultural and digital society. These concerns prove themselves more important every day; cf. the riots sparked by the publishing in Western Europe of the Mohammed cartoons in 2006.

The public library is not only a place where knowledge and culture can be found and distributed, but also a public space. A public space is not a fixed form, but a physical sphere with few limitations concerning those who visit the actual territory. The quality of a public space is a result of many interwoven processes regarding questions of public policy, physical design, and service quality.

As both a public space and a centre of knowledge and culture, the public library has a potential for being a vital part of a local community. It is used by most segments of society and it is a junction where different cultures as well as different spheres of life - education, leisure & entertainment, work and business – meet. This research project is aiming towards understanding the role of the public library in the making of social capital. It is most likely that public spaces are essential in fostering local communities with high quality. The sense of belonging, the nurturing processes of making identity, the social bridging between members of a community, is depending on the existence of mutual ground – virtual and/or physical.

Høgskolen i Oslo - PLACE

ITU Gaze Tracker

The ITU Gaze Tracker, developed by the Gaze Group at the IT University of Copenhagen and supported by the Communication by Gaze Interaction association (COGAIN), has been released. It aims to provide a free, open-source, low-cost alternative to commercial gaze tracking systems, and a starting point for people interested in the development of gaze tracking systems. A special effort has been put into designing an easy-to-use interface.

More information on the ITU Gaze Tracker and a link to download the software can be found in the Downloads section of the website. Other gaze-typing and gaze-controlled applications developed by the Gaze Group are also available.

ITU Gaze Tracker released

Cave-teknologi

IDEO Labs nye oppfinnelse, iCube, tar i bruk tre hvite vegger og et hvitt gulv for å skape en utrolig effektiv simulering. Sammenhengende, stereoskopiske bilder blir vist på de fire flatene. Brukeren må imidlertid ha på seg spesielle 3D-briller.



ITavisen | Se det utrolige 3D-rommet!

World Builder

RFID-iPhone

Kommunikasjonen mellom de fysiske objektene og iPhone-applikasjonen foregår ved hjelp av elektroniske, trådløse RFID-brikker (Radio Frequency Identification). En egen RFID-leser er koblet til mobiltelefonens bakside.


iPhone RFID: object-based media from timo on Vimeo.

At nettopp iPhone er valgt som hjernen i løsningen virker ikke tilfeldig.

- Apples kommende operativsystem for iPhone (iPhone 3.0) åpner for utvikling av ekstern maskinvare og RFID-leser vil kunne være integrert i neste generasjons iPhone, skriver Martinussen.

Norske forskere lager RFID-iPhone - digi.no : Personlig teknologi

Explore Rome through Augmented Reality

Visitors to the Allard Pierson Museum will get to partake in "A Future for the Past," a swiveling iMac superimposes buildings and text onto two large pictures/murals.

Via Engadget.

Edges

"Edges" is a computer driven light installation projected on the geometry of a room. The idea is to make the geometry and architecture dominate the projection. The projection serves the underlying structure, it's like writing a choreography for the architecture. There is no post production or visual effects in these videos, it`s just a video camera filming the light installation.

Edges

Art, Space and the Public Sphere(s).

Some basic observations on the difficult relation of public art, urbanism and political theory by Oliver Marchart

"Social space is produced and structured by conflicts. With this recognition, a democratic spatial politics begins." - Rosalyn Deutsche

As we know, "art in the public space" can mean at least two things. For one, art in combination with architecture and artistic urban outfitting; this is the traditional conception - among other things, a conception of space as a physical geographical urban and architectural space. Yet on the other hand, "public art" in the sense of more recent forms of "art in the public interest" (or "social interventionism", "community art", etc.) - not least in Austria - has also been developed into a secure niche in the canon of available art practices and forms. Sending Austrian artists, usually subsumed under this header, to the Biennale of Venice is just the keystone of sanctioning social interventionist art practices in art history (and could very well be their gravestone, too).

debalie: cultureel politiek debat centrum

Fortelle med rom

Hvordan forteller man en historie med rom? Da scenograf Bob Crowley lagde kostymer og kulisser til Verdis opera Don Carlos i operaen i høst, gjorde han middelalderens dystre Kong Filip II av Spania til medarkitekt.

Arkitektnytt