My principal interest in mobile applications is to push the boundaries of innovation to create uniquely mobile experiences. I hope my blogs excite and challenge developers to think 'outside the box'.
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Mobile User Generated Content at FN Tech Day
This blog links in with Nathans in relation to the Forum Nokia Developer Day to be held in Budapest in November and relates to my talk which will be on Mobile Users Generated Content (UGC). The emergence of large scale UGC marks a shift among particularly for media organizations...
Mobile Control of Your Inner Rabbit
This is part of a project looking at novel interaction possibilities through so called internet toys. The project was developed by one of my new PhD students Kate Lund as part of the learning process for Widgets and because my colleague Reuben had bought a Internet Rabbit some time ago...
Workshop with added Concert!
In my last post I highlighted the FREE workshop I am running at Futuresonic 2008 in Manchester UK on the 30 th of April which has been kindly supported by Forum Nokia. As part of the event we are running a live visual demonstration of an mobile interactive project called Mash Reality...
Futuresonic Mobile Experiences Workshop
This blog is to let the community know about the free (but no lunch ) Mobile Experiences workshop I am running from 12pm on the 30 th of April in Contact Theatre Space 3 in Manchester as part of kick off events for Futuresonic 2008 which is a Urban Festival of Art, Music &...
Why am I such a fan of Widgets?
This blog is in response to a number of requests I received after our presentation at this year's Game Developers conference (GDC 2008) for both an annotated copy of the slides (they directly printed out the slides which mostly just consisted of images and video) and to answer the...
First Mobile Game 2.0
In a previous blog I talked about the presentation Will and I are going to do at this year’s Game Developers Conference ( GDC08 ) around the paradigms of Web 2.0 as applied to mobile games using widgets. In that Blog I talked about a new game which built upon our previous experience of the...
WRT Widgeting
I got news today that the WRT Widget mfooty developed by my new PhD student Carlos Garcia Wylie was a winner in the recent Nokia widget competition. The design idea was based around an old favourite application of mine called mfooty but updated to take account the philosophy of simplicity...
Mobile Games 2.0!
Along with Will Bamford I have had a lecture accepted for next year’s GDC called “ Mobile Game 2.0: The Rise of the Widget ?” based on the ideas we have developed from working on the Widgets Workshop blog. In the coming weeks I will talk about a new game and...
may you live in interesting times
On what seemed like another in an endless stream of plane rides last week (my carbon footprint is rubbish) I had cause to consider on what changes I have encountered in the mobile industry over the summer and it brought to mind the supposed Chinese curse “may you live in interesting...
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My principal interest in mobile applications is to push the boundaries of innovation to create uniquely mobile experiences. I hope my blogs excite and challenge developers to think 'outside the box'.
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