Invisible Yet Necessary

Fabien Girardin reports on some of the problems encountered with the Wi-Fi network at his university. While this is not totally unusual, the fact that his university displays what he calls Deficient WiFi Awareness Sign is quite significant. It is much more usual to see signs that announces the availabilty of Wi-Fi rather than its […]

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Lately, there has been a lot of discussion on Wi-Fi access sharing. This is not a new topic but it has probably found a new life with FON building a business model around people sharing their Wi-Fi access and FON getting major funding from both Skype and Google. I probably have to thank Martin Varsavsky […]

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As part of the research project for my master, I am conducting an online survey on how people understand and use Wi-Fi technologies.
The goal of the survey is to help improve the design of Wi-Fi by collecting various user experiences.
Whether you have used it only once or use it everyday, every experience you had with […]

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Now that you don’t have to wonder how does callback work?, I can explain some of the interesting designs that comes with this system. By designs, I am refering to so-calls “hacks” or modification made to the original system to support a particular type of users or a new functionality. As callback was an […]

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I was down in the Bay Area two weeks ago mostly in order to meet some people to discuss research. My first stop was at the Stanford School of Law where I was hoping to get some more literature on the legal aspects of telecommunication laws related to WiFi. After spending a couple of hours […]

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