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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3D Game Widget!
Not content with how far he had already pushed the WidSets platform my PhD student Will Bamford has implemented a 3D version of our first Widget Bombus ( 267324 downloads). Here is a video showing the game in action.
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Looking backwards and forwards
On this day last year I posted a blog about predicting the main mobile trends for 2007 and suggested a few ideas with the help of a few comments from the community. I thought I would start my year in a reflective mood (must be my age) and see how we did. Location based services have...
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...
Designing for the Emergent Markets
I came across this post at Mobhappy by Carlo Longino which highlights two new Nokia phones (1200 and 1208), which have probably generated little interest amongst developers in the West as they are entry level phone, but are particularly interesting (at least to me ) from a socio-techinal...
How people carry phones
I thought I would point everyone to an piece of cultural research performed by ethnographers working for Nokia on the site of Jan Chipchase (For those of you interested in the social impact of phones I can highly recommend Jan’s site as one to watch). The report is very...
Is T9 changing our language?
I came across this piece (my blog is so book) discussing how T9 is creating new words associations as people are starting linking words that appear from the same key presses in T9 together which otherwise have nothing in common. For instance in London kids are apparently using...
Mobile health blogging on the journey to school
I have been a little quiet on the blogging front lately as Will Bamford and I have been working hard to complete the first stage of project we are working on with members of our Universities Geography department.
We have created a version of Locoblog, which we have christened...
Environmentally friendly base stations
Interesting article on the BBC technology site discussing proposed use in India of bi-diesel which is made from a combination plant oils and alcohol to rum mobile phone base-stations. This type of fuel has much less environmental impact than traditional petroleum products and as such...
The mobile phone as a cyber policeman
I came across this article via a number of mobile blog sites which details New York ’s move to accept images and videos as part of its 911 and 311 services. In the UK we certainly saw the power of user reporting with the London tube bombings and I guess this is a natural...
Shameless book plug!
Having finally finished the version 9.0 S60 book I have been working on for a while with my fellow authors Reuben Edwards and Helen Clemson plus many others at Symbian Press and Wiley and I though I would share my joy in the fact that I have been told it will be launched at 3GSM in a few...
An end to the dreaded roaming charges?
Yesterday one of the mobile operators in the UK announced that they have abolished roaming charges for its UK customers when travelling to overseas countries were they have networks. Having been stung by roaming charges on a number of occasions I am hoping that all UK operators will...
Predicting the mobile future for 2007!
I came across a really interesting piece in the Guardian technology section relating to what Futurologists have predicted in relation to technology over that last century and how accurate they have been. Seeing as it is the New year I thought it might be interesting if we did a spot of navel...
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...
I love the smell of mobile in the morning!
This post at future perfect interested me as someone who has a fairly hap hazard approach to his mobile phone but also because it highlights the different cultural attitudes to the device itself. It describes a facilty in Seoul where you can irradiate, air clean, wipe and secnt your mobile!...
Is it better to make things worse?
Whilst discussing mobile applications design with some of my students I remembered the contentious programming paradigm from my undergraduate days “worse is better” by Richard P. Gabriel which was a challenge to the “more is less” philosophy prevalent at the time....
Who am I?
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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- As seen on TV and stress relief
- Widget Maps
- Motion Controlled 3D Multi-player Space Game
- Mobile Control of Your Inner Rabbit
- 3D Game Widget!
- Heart Controlled Mobile Interaction
- Workshop with added Concert!
- Futuresonic Mobile Experiences Workshop
- WidSets the new multiplayer casual games platform
- NFC Group Game: Tick! Tick! Boom!
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