Mobile 2.0
Sit back, relax and take a look at this great slideshow about Mobile 2.0 - the mobile trends and the future. Slideshow by Brian Fling.
Location based media
Location based media (LBM) is the field I have a strong interest in and will write my thesis about. There is a lot going on in this sector and the reason for this boom has been the fast development of mobile phones. In Japan, more than 50% of the mobile owners have a GPS equipped phone. All the new models have a GPS built in - that’s the new standard and the trigger for location based services.
During this year, more than 10 million iPhones have been sold, which is a great platform for mobile services. Already today there are hundreds of location based services available - you could browse for friends in your location or find the nearest pizza restaurant. Some popular iPhone apps using your location. Also, a great review of the location based services by O’Reilly Radar.
The mobile market is growing fast and according to Brian Fling, the mobile designer, 10% of the whole web traffic will be made from mobile devices by the end of 2009. That’s a lot!
I have collected some keypoints concerning locaton based media and will update this mindmap regularly.
Here’s the mindmap in fullscreen: location based media.
Have you used some location based mobile service? Would you use?
Locative technologies
Howdy,
Long time, no see. Wanted to push this blog live again and share what’s going on in the IMKE lab.
Recently we had a course about Locative Technologies and now are working on the design project. The idea is to create a mashup of services available in the web and we decided to create an emotional mobile application. The idea is to find Facebook members on your mobile close to your actual location. Meet your friends or new people with similar interests. Wouldn’t be interesting?
Yes, there already are similar services (like aka-aki), but we decided to create a link with Facebook. So, our service would be a mashup of:
- Fire Eagle - is a Yahoo! owned service that acts as a store for user location information. Other services and applications can update or access this information via the Fire Eagle API, having first obtained the user’s permission. I’ve been playing around with the framework and found out it really easy to use. There are a lot of applications supporting Fire Eagle and updating your location via mobile is really easy.
- Facebook - we need Facebook, because we could collect the people’s interests and data from their Facebook profiles. Everybody, who wants to use this application should first add our application to their Facebook profile - so we could get the data and make sure we could meet only the people who want to share their location (the privacy issues etc).
- Google Maps - we use Google Maps to locate you and your friends on the map.
What makes the service special, is the emotional side. For example you could define your mood like “feel like going to the movies” and then you could browse only these people in your neighbourhood who have similar “emotional message”.
The screenshot from the mockup.
And now lets have some fun learning the Facebook application’s architecture.
Interactive environments
During the EMIM course “New Interactive Environmetns” we were discussing on the topics:
- what are interactive environments
- how to classify interactive environments
- interactivity in online communities
- the future of interactive environments
- interaction design
At the end we we’re supposed to write a summary and create a graph of the interactive environments classification. My paper can be found here: “Interactive environments” (PDF).
The graph about interactive environments: (a closer look could be also found here in MindMeister)
