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 to Mailbox
As I have been quiet for a while I thought I would present and interesting student project by Russ Gardener based on an idea I had a number of years ago which seemed ripe for resurrection. The concept is very simple in that it’s a mobile application which allows you to create a...
Black Swans and Silly Glasses
For the last few years I have been recommending Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book Black Swans to my students. A Black Swan is an unpredictable event that carries massive impact which after it has happened we generally try to explain it away with some explanation that makes it appear less...
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...
We++ Mobile Social Software
A while ago I blogged about an application (m3Dcam) Will Bamford and I had come up with that allows users to create their own 3D photographs on their mobile and upload them to a community site . As I said at the time the project was meant to be a bit of fun and I was expecting fairly...
Create your own 3D photos using your mobile phone
This is definitely one of those ideas that I wont even pretend that we had some serious academic motive behind its development, and it definitely comes into the category of doing something ‘just because you can’ (but not necessarily should). It started as conversation between...
Mobile Location Mashups
Someone told me the other day that I had been suspiciously quiet of late so this post may well explain why.
We (me an Will Bamford) have been trialling a new research project called LocoMash which allows communal photo mash-ups of events to be recorded using mobile...
Augmenting our Mobile Reality!
Once again its been too long since I had time to blog. Recently my student Fadi Chehimi and I have been working on the revisions of our paper “Augmented Reality 3D Interactive Advertisements on Smartphones” that was accepted for ICMB 07 and I thought its now a good time to share...
Mobile laser tag using S60 camera phones
Here is a research project I have been doing with my PhD student Fadi Chehimi which attempts to take another look at using the camera on phones in games and particular harnessing some of the power of S60 (something, with a few notable exceptions, I feel hasn’t been fully explored in...
Using gesture as an interface for mobile applications
Last week I was at the Game Developers Conference and heard many complaints about lack of innovation. With this in mind I gave a lecture on “Using Touch, Sight, and Gesture in Mobile Games”. Whilst I covered using RFID/NFC and the Camera on the mobile phone as a novel interface,...
Is their an elephant in the corner of the entertainment industry?
I have just come back from couple of days at the ICEC 2006 and although there were many interesting talks I felt that one topic which was noticeably absent was relating to the rising DIY entertainment cultures such as myspace, mashups, blogging, etc. This put me to thinking that as it is such...
Football in a Flash (Lite)
I thought I would share our experience of a recently completed project where we were looking into development using Flashlite. We recreated a favourite application mfooty that we first developed about four years ago that provides a live football results service (goals, cards, etc) to your...
Location Based Mobile Blogging
Today one of my PhD students Will Bamford launched our academic project LocoBlog to investigate users socio-technical experiences related to location based mobile blogging. In a nutshell we have created a J2ME application ( initial prototype developed in Python ) that allows you to link up...
Bluetooth 'Wild West' proximity game
Despite being over exited by the prospect of the 3-D sensor on the 5500 I though I would highlight another new game we have developed called ‘mobslinger’ which brings together some of the recent discussions regarding Bluetooth and MoSoSo.
Mobslinger runs as a...
mobile graffiti- the writing is no longer on the wall !
Today we present another of our projects at ACE 2006 in a paper called “The Mobile Phone as a Digital SprayCan”. The project is called ‘ Mobspray ’ is based on the graffiti writing practice of ‘tagging’ were writers leave their individual tags (often a...
whatever happened to Nokia Sensor?
I am travelling in India at the moment at have been inundated with Bluetooth messages since I arrived. This surprised me somewhat as the craze for Bluejacking died out in the UK a couple of years ago and I now tend to leave my Bluetooth on to access my GPS unit. Having discussed this...
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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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