> I'm looking for clever example of mobile phones interacting with the > environment, like in a museum or a retail space. I'm thinking of > interactions like pushing information to phones while the person is on-site, > or having them use their phone to make queries or send text messages to an > on-site system. I feel like this has come up on the list before, but I > didn't find anything in the archives.
This is actually one of my passions regarding mobile. Relevant technologies are Bluetooth, GPS and other location technologies, camera, NFC, SMS. Camera: the Nokia phone that takes a picture of a piece of paper currency, recognizes what it is, and announces it to the user, verbally. Ta da! It's now harder for a blind user to be cheated. Camera: take a picture of a QR code, get info from a web page or MMS. Camera: take a picture of an arbitrary item, have it recognized (some startup at CTIA) Camera: generic text recognition, both for business cards and others. Want to read the menu in a foreign country? NFC: tap your phone on the turnstile in the subway; have your account debited. (Tokyo and London already working) SMS or web: watch television, interact with it via the mobile. Bluetooth: file transfer stuff. VML is working with Bluetooth hotspot advertising. We tend to write about context a fair amount, and it came up at the Design For Mobile conference. Check out http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/blog/blog/category/context/ and http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/blog/blog/category/conference/ ~~~~ Barbara Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-785-838-3003 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
