“I must say that it’s been surprisingly difficult, in various conversations with folks not immersed in the IxD space, to get across the essential distinction between context-aware applications and location-based services (LBS)...Mac Funamizu has actually nailed two separate things here. The first demonstrates precisely what I, at least, mean when I use the words “context [...]
Bernhard Schindlholzer wrote that “even though I am confident that there will certainly be significant growth in some areas (i.e. vehicle tracking, in-car traffic information) I doubt that someday everyone will be using Google’s “Search nearby” feature to find the next ATM, restaurant or supermarket…the majority of people still roam in just a few locations [...]
“For users, the most important location is where they are now—making the dimension of location perhaps the most important design element to consider when creating new mobile user experiences. Location-based services have been percolating for years, but as Global Positioning System (GPS) devices, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, and other geospatial technologies become cheaper and [...]
The Yellow Arrow project is a fairly straightforward placemarking-art project. Participants put yellow arrow stickers with special codes on them, send an SMS to describe the place, and then a passer-by can send an SMS query to find out what was written. This project’s interesting, though, because it seems be getting some global momentum.
Link: Yellow [...]
“Our study revealed unexpected uses of location-aware reminders. We found that Place-It notes were often used for creating motivational reminders to perform activities that would vary in priority over time. This is similar to using post-it notes in highly visible areas for motivation. The locations for motivational reminders were often set at frequently visited places, [...]
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Posted 16 March 2006
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Also tagged: design, handheld, hci, interactiondesign, interruption, ixd, location, mobile, pervasive, ubicomp, userexperience, ux
Published by Gabriel White.