(Video) I thought to share with you the outcomes of a 4 day Mobile Interface Culture workshop that I gave at the beginning of February at the department of Interface culture of University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria. Find here the video of 8 Mobile Demos that were the outcomes.

The video shows quite a variety of innovative applications starting from an interactive audiovisual art installation, to two pervasive GPS based games, a Bluetooth multi-player game, an interactive drawing program via the N95 accelerometer, to a veterinary support tool, to a fertility checking application. In this Interface culture workshop we used the N95 accelerometer many times for building new types of interfaces. (Thanks cyke64 for the aXYZ module! It is fantastically helpful.) This shows that people love to design all sorts of new kinds of interfaces with gesture control using a mobile and that there is huge potential for innovation in this area.

As in my previous workshops, most of the participating students had never done any mobile phone programming before and only few had some programming experience at all. At the beginning of the workshop I was teaching the students for only 2 days how to program Python for S60 applications in hands-on style and on the following 2 days I helped them to produce 8 fully working applications based on their own ideas. All mobile applications are implemented with Python for S60 - even the flashy graphics UI ones.

In case your department or company has interest in running a Mobile Interface Culture or Rapid Mobile Application Prototyping workshop with outcomes as shown in the video, feel free to contact me. I can possibly help you out.