The present historical moment may seem a particularly inopportune time to review Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam's latest exploration of civic decline in America. After all, the outpouring of volunteerism, solidarity, patriotism, and self-sacrifice displayed by Americans in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks appears to fly in the face of Putnam's central argument: that \"social capital\" -defined as \"social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them\" (p. 19)'has declined to dangerously low levels in America over the last three decades. However, Putnam is not fazed in the least by the recent effusion of solidarity. Quite the contrary, he sees in it the potential to \"reverse what has been a 30to 40-year steady decline in most measures of connectedness or community.\"' As an example of how the current \"war on terrorism\" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says \"permanently marked\" the generation that lived through it and had a \"terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century.\" 3 If Americans can follow this example and channel their current civic

Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community

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Eric Ries was born in September 1978. He graduated from Yale University and moved to silicon Valley in the beginning of the millennium. He pioneered the philosophy of Lean Startup, based on his experience with multiple startups, primary being IMVU which he co-founded along with Will Harvey in 2004. Eric Ries originated his Lean Startup philosophy after getting inspired from the Japanese Philosophy of Lean Manufacturing.

The Lean Startup:How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

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The CyberCode is a visual tagging system based on a 2D-barcode technology and provides several features not provided by other tagging systems. CyberCode tags can be recognized by the low-cost CMOS or CCD cameras found in more and more mobile devices, and it can also be used to determine the 3D position of the tagged object as well as its ID number. This paper describes examples of augmented reality applications based on CyberCode, and discusses some key characteristics of tagging technologies that must be taken into account when designing augmented reality environments.

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CyberCode: designing augmented reality environments with visual tags

Many electric appliances have recently become network reachable, and we would receive better services from them if we could use them in combination. We have therefore developed a new hand-held interaction device called "InfoStick" that serves as an "information carrier" for these appliances. For example, a user can "pick up" TV program information from a web browser and "drop" it into a VCR deck, just like moving a physical object from one place to another. Using attached visual markers, the InfoStick identifies information appliances or other physical objects and gives an appropriate choice of action to the user. This paper explains the design and implementation of the InfoStick as well as several potential applications using this device.

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InfoStick: An Interaction Device for Inter-Appliance Computing

This paper proposes a new hand-held device called “InfoPoint” that allows appliances to work together over a network. We have applied the idea of “drag-and-drop” operation as provided in the GUIs of PC and workstation desktop environment. InfoPoint provides a unified interface that gives different types of appliances “drag-and-drop”-like behaviour for the transfer of data. Moreover, it can transfer data from/to non-appliances such as pieces of paper. As a result, InfoPoint allows appliances to work together, in the real-world environment, in terms of data transfer. A prototype of InfoPoint has been implemented and several experimental applications have been investigated. InfoPoint has shown its applicability in a variety of circumstances. We believe that the idea proposed in this paper will be a significant technology in the network of the future.

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InfoPoint: A Device that Provides a Uniform User Interface to Allow Appliances to Work Together over a Network

Our research goal is developing and deploying indoor and outdoor seamless Location-Based Service (LBS) that covers indoor and outdoor locations. The prime concern for GPS-based positioning systems such as car navigation are that they are not allowed to use ins ide building nor underground, where GPS signals are out of range. To increase flexibility for providing such se rvices, both indoor and outdoor seamlessly, we have developed a novel seamless positioning system with the followin g three steps. First, IMES (Indoor Messaging System), an innovative technology for seamless positioning that uses GPS chipset receiver was applied to realize indoor positioning. Any device that has a GPS chipset in t he receiver can detect IMES signal for positioning. Sec ond, the firmware on GPS chipset was modified in order to smoothly provide seamless location information both indoor and outdoor in accordance with the movement of the user. Third, Network-Assist GPS/IMES was developed to improve time to first fix and vertical positioning accuracy. The system will meet the needs of emergency where quick and accurate personal location information dramatically makes difference. The application may be extended to commercial activity as well for personal store navi gation. A prototype of system has been implemented and a shopping application has been investigated.

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Indoor and Outdoor Seamless Positioning using Indoor Messaging System and GPS

This paper presents u-Photo which is an interactive digital still image including information of pervasive services associated with networked appliances and sensors in pervasive computing environment. U-Photo Tools can generate a u-Photo and provide methods for discovering contextual information about these pervasive services. Users can easily find out this information through the metaphor of ‘taking a photograph'; the users use u-Photo by clicking on a physical entity in a digital still image. In addition, u-Photo makes managing information more efficient because the still image has embedded visual information. Using u-Photo and u-Photo Tools, we conducted various demonstrations and performed usability tests. The results of these tests show that u-Photo Tools are easy to learn. We also present that the time that expert u-Photo users take to find the object in piles of u-Photos is shorter than the time it take to find the object in piles of text-based descriptions.

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u-Photo: interacting with pervasive services using digital still images

This paper introduces a novel way to allow non-expert users to create smart surroundings. Non-smart everyday objects such as furniture and appliances found in homes and offices can be converted to smart ones by attaching computers, sensors, and devices. In this way, non-smart components that form non-smart objects are made smart in advance. For our first prototype, we have developed u-Texture, a self-organizable universal panel that works as a building block. The u-Texture can change its own behavior autonomously through recognition of its location, its inclination, and surrounding environment by assembling these factors physically. We have demonstrated several applications to confirm that u-Textures can create smart surroundings easily without expert users.

Naohiko Kohtake

Papers

InfoStick: An Interaction Device for Inter-Appliance Computing

InfoPoint: A Device that Provides a Uniform User Interface to Allow Appliances to Work Together over a Network

Indoor and Outdoor Seamless Positioning using Indoor Messaging System and GPS

u-Photo: interacting with pervasive services using digital still images

u-Texture: self-organizable universal panels for creating smart surroundings