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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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How best to present 3D navigational information to pedestrians?

A few blogs ago I said we had created a model of the Lancaster University campus which we (myself and Carlos) would transfer to the mobile phone to test some 3D navigation ideas for pedestrians. We have managed to get the model into M3G (and working reasonably well despite not having yet...

A Zero Button Game

I have been meaning to write this blog since the Champion day in Singapore (yes I know I am slack) as it sprang from a conversation I was having with Kevin Sharp over dinner. Basically, we were talking about mobile interfaces and in particular the desirability of the one button game but...

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...

Mobile phones as data loggers and sensors

I previously posted an outline of a project I am working on with Will and colleagues from our Geography Department (Duncan Wyatt, Colin Pooley, Marion Moser, and Gemma Davies) which uses mobile and GPS units to both track (recording at 1 second intervals) the journey to...

could you be an urban outlaw?

We have finally got round to arranging large scale experimental evaluation of our research project the serendipitous proximity shoot-em-up game Mobslinger . We have therefore just put a beta version of the game on our site for testing by...

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,...

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...

Nokia integrated NFC phone

While the main press furore at CES may have been around the iphone I was much more interested to see Nokia announce its first fully integrated NFC phone based on the Nokia 6131 . The specification says that it supports JSR 257 but doesn’t list this of those preinstalled which may mean...

When hand waving becomes a dangerous sport!

I have been following the growing number of wii related accidents on the aptly named, wii have a problem , which ranges from black eyes and cut hands, from inadvertently hitting light fittings or friends, to broken monitors if the straps on the controller break. This...

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...