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My principal interest in mobile 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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Category: Connectivity

Point ‘n’ Seek: the return of the geo-wand

In light of the advancing sensor support on the latest phones I decided to revitalise some of my work in LBS with my student Zhang Lei particularly around the old idea of geo-wands. Whilst many LBS present scenarios for users searching for Points of Interest (POI) that are proximate to the...

WidSets the new multiplayer casual games platform

I recently encouraged a couple of our MSc students (Klen Copic Pucihar and Leon Laxman) to enter the Forum Nokia sponsored WidSets competition on Betavine . I suggested it would be interesting to have a go with the new 'channels' functionality (this is a very early release) which allows...

NFC Group Game: Tick! Tick! Boom!

Here is a very simple game concept my new PhD student Avi Nandwani has been playing with. The game is simple enough and based on the old parlour game pass the parcel. In this case we have replaced the parcel by a bomb which you have to defuse on your turn. You defuse the bomb by cutting one...

NFC is good for you

As I have just had the paper Using NFC to Support and Encourage Green Exercise accepted for next year’s Pervasive Heath conference in Tampere Finland I thought I would give an insight into the project. It is well accepted that the increasingly sedentary lifestyle of the...

Mobile phones as deployable sensors

I was asked by a colleague in Environmental Science about using a mobile phone to relay pictures back of one of there remote sites every half hour for hopefully about a month. Like most engineers I can’t resist a challenge so we have created an application that provides the functionality...

Flat rate for VOIP and IM over 3G networks

Without naming names I was excited to see that one of the mobile operators in the UK has extended its flat fee for data services over mobile to include both VOIP and IM . As someone developing mobile applications one of the barriers I have most often encountered in promoting new data...

Is the power of touch rising in the East?

I have been writing up a paper on the experiences of a number of users who have used the touch interface on RFID/NFC enabled mobile phones during three of my mixed reality games (thanks again to Nokia for the phones and SDK). As part of the background for the paper I came across a...

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