Experiential Computing

I have seen a few people use the term ‘reverse search’ for searches performed by engines like shazam.com. I find it very awkward term. Maybe it is just me. I feel that people are so much used to living in…

Twitter has made Real Time Search a new field. First it was associated with what people called ‘ambient awareness’ and now this microblogging site has been called a real time search engine. Of course, the popularity of microblogging started with…

A new concept of Scent Opera is going to be introduce soon. See WSJ report. a “scent opera,” a new performance art that pairs music with a carefully orchestrated sequence of smells, some pleasant and some real stinkers. The opera,…

For the last several years people have been talking about ‘visual computing’ as a discipline within computer science. The idea has been to bring together elements of image processing, computer vision, graphics, 3-d processing, multimedia search and all such disciplines…

Memories for Life and Live Memories are two projects in UK and Trento Italy, respectively, that are working on similar things and hence are now coming closer. I was invited to attend their meeting because of my interest in similar…