playground: copymeter

for fun I developed a simple web tool you can use online called CopyMeter (using only javascript). CopyMeter aims at measuring the originality of a text by using a search engine (Bing) to compute a ‘copy’ score at a sentence

Mechanical Art

Few months ago I was invited by Stephane Degoutin at the ENSAD aka ‘Art Deco’, a design school to co-organize a 1-month workshop with students about experimenting new forms of crowdsourced art using Mechanical Turk, a Amazon labor market service

Crowdsourcing satellite imagery – part I

With the emergence of web 2.0 practices, new participatory approaches in GIS emerged for the last decade. An underlying challenge in crowdsourcing is the strategy used to allocate the volunteers in order to optimize a set of criteria, especially the

Social capital as contribution in citizen science projects

Contributing to a participatory projects like citizen science projects is somehow about asking volunteers to use one of their available capitals. It could be material e.g. computer/mobilephone (volunteer computing, or participatory sensing), knowledge/expertise (Q&A websites e.g. stackoverflow, quora), financial (crowd

Paticipatory modeling: citizens as modelers

Can we complement or even replace physical laws by the experience of local people to model environmental phenomena? An article from [1] showed that an air quality map generated by local people could be of a good quality compared to one generated by a physical model?

In the context of a participatory and cost-effective process to monitoring  natural resources, pollution or other kinds of commons, can we also empower local communities to form an emergent computation model of a local phenomenon using their tacit knowledge coupled with real measurements?

The tragedy of democratic voting systems

A common issue in participatory/democratic infrastructures is the problem of aggregating individual preferences into a global one. Voting is often the most public and visible example of mass collective decision-making. Such problem of aggregation occurs in many different disciplines: in

Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation

I borrowed a Book “Weird Ideas That Work” from Sutton, Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford. As the title mentions, the book is about “weird ideas for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation”. This post is a summary taken from the

DIY: sensing/quantifying your food, money and tv consumption

The question of who owns the data we generate on Internet is a common and challenging problem (e.g. all privacy issues about Facebook). However, we don’t talk too much about our real life. We also generate digital traces when we

From participatory sensing to participatory interpretation

The wide adoption of sensor-rich mobile phones in combination with the spread of web 2.0 culture recently created the right conditions for a new scope of research referred to as participatory sensing, which comes to complement previous efforts in sensor

Most influential persons of the 20th century?

Carl Bosch Fritz Haber Which person had the greater impact in the 20th Century? Hitler, Gandhi, Einstein, etc. According to Nature [1], it is the duo Haber-Brosch because of their invention. Their Haber-Bosch process has often been called the most

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

NoiseTube: Participatory sensing for noise pollution monitoring

Issue 1: Pollution assessment:Currently the assessment of population exposure to pollution is a real problem due to the complexity to measure it. For officials, measuring exposure at an individual level for a citywide population is viewed as impractical. Other approaches

Playground: Environmental tagging of pictures

small idea. Pictures or video are supports to remember, reconstruct our experiences of life and a way to transfert them without spatio-temoral constraints. In regards of the current green trend, can I also add environemtal information to such support of

Social attention management in online communities

The objective of this research was to investigate the use of Information and Communication Technologies to support people in managing their attention at a social level. People are being overwhelmed by solicitations and opportunities to engage into a social exchange

Christmas + Sustainability = no good friends

I now work on problems related to the sustainability and web 2.0. I recently taped different terms related to sustainability on Google Trends service, which is a good indicator of the people’s attention (in our case it’s only for the

Impact of the notion of attention in 3 fields: economics, sociology, information system

This short article is about the use of the notion of attention in 3 different cases. The goal is to understand that the notion of attention is a transversal notion, interesting not only for a cognition point of view, at

A new kind of Spamming: artificial attention spamming

Article updated (original date: 05-2007). In the attention economy context, a common question is: “How attract the people’s attention to my web page when I’m new and I don’t have any reputation?” . The classical marketing way is to spam

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

Exploration Inversée: des papous à la découverte de la France

Hier j’ai regardé sur dailymotion un documentaire sur l’aventure de deux papous découvrant la France. ce film est fondé sur une expérience intéressante, le concept d’ exploration inversée, une sorte d’inversion des rôles: au lieu que se soit l’homme occidental

Structure attentionelle des sites de collaborative filtering

Article sur une vision organisationnelle du service digg.com basée sur des théories liées à l’attention. (Simon 1947) définit le comportement d’une organisation comme un processus cognitif et structurel. La prise de décision est le résultat d’une capacité attentionnelle limitée de