Awareness of Wireless Networks Availability and Quality

During Lift, Bernard Paques posted some measures of the fluctuating quality of service of the WiFi network. While the quality of a space can be revealed by its physical aspect, wireless services have very little if no affordances. What is interesting is everybody builds its own general awareness of the quality of a “cloud of connectivity“, from the past experiences in similar environments and folk psychology. The “communicating bamboo” project developed by Orange Labs shows this necessity to reveal the availability and quality of a wireless service.