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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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A mobile 'Magic Monstervision Machine'

I have been working on an interesting take on a location based game recently which incorporates user generated content in the form of sketches of monsters. It’s in collaboration with my friend and artist Andrew Wilson who ran a workshop at Institute of Contemporary Arts in London...

Understanding the Magnetometer (Digital compass) Sensor

It seems a long time ago since I blogged about the operation of the accelerometer sensors and made a plea for their inclusion as a standard feature (I am of course assuming the positive outcome was because people actually listened to me rather than me being just prophetic ). Anyway I...

Widget Maps

This might be considered a bit lower tech than my usual fair but is a lot more accessible for the general public. As an aside from a presence based mobile social network project he is working on with me and Will (I will blog about it in future ) my MSc student Klen Copic Pucihar...

Heart Controlled Mobile Interaction

I have been working on a project recently called Heart Angel with Carlos Garcie Wylie exploring the use of an Alive Technologies ECG Heart Rate monitor with an N95. This type of idea has been discussed before by fellow Champion Arto Holpainen but my interests have been primarily in the...

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...

Locomash live from Roskilde Festival

We are currently running a Locomash event from the Roskide Rock Festival in Denmark and thus far the spatial map is building nicely and capturing a lot of interesting images including a fair bit of mud. Unfortunately Will and I weren’t able to attend but our colleague...

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...

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...

Talking to a poster with your phone

I am teaching Symbian on our MSc course since last Monday so not had much time for blogging or unhappily the smart phone show this year. However, I came across the article discussing the recent development from the NFC forum defining a specification for smart posters which interested me. In...

Mapvertising

I came across another new term this week (don’t you just love them) the so-called ‘mapvertising’ whereby advertisers are targeting maps sites as places to promote there wares. This includes both general route planners to mash-ups. As anyone who reads my blogs I am a long term...

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...

Prize winning mobile RFID/NFC mixed realty game

I have just received word that three students who contributed to our paper on the mobile/RFID mixed reality game PAC-LAN (which I described in my very first blog ) has won the Scholarship Prize from the ACM Computers in Entertainment for the best paper submitted for 2006. The Prize is...

are we creating mobility or immobility?

I came across this blog by Paul Hartzog by way of a colleague from Sociology here at Lancaster who looking into the different facets of mobility. Paul argues that through mobility we consequently create anti mobility for instance: “Technological mobility, i.e....

searching location based services on your phone

One of my PhD students Paul Gilberstson is working on methods related to algorithms that will allow searches of location based information on your mobile phone rather than through a server (although periodic data refreshing is required from the location server). The advantage being that...

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