time, motion, touch
On the heals of Dan's call to arms for Interaction Designers, this
seems to be right in line with the type of "next generation" work that
Dan feels we should all be thinking about and challenging ourselves
with.
The blog entry is from an organization "Touch" that I've been
following @ http://nearfield.org. They work on RFID and other Near
Field Connection (NFC) technologies and their ramifications to IxD.
The direct blog entery
(http://www.nearfield.org/2007/08/time-motion-and-touch) references
someone who is doing work in this area at a very semantic level but
discusses the practical realities about these semantics.
The one bit I really liked was about how today's prominent designs are
trying to use ideas from a stationary internet and apply them to a
mobile one and this accounts for the real failure of many mobile
application projects.
-- dave
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Thanks for the reference Dave.
I think the primary takeaway from the iPhone, some of the Nokia wifi browsers and particularly the adoption of gestures is that the small screen is no longer the primary consideration in mobile. We are seeing how this will be managed. The real issue, as it always seems to be, is the context of use. In the case of mobile... so many things change, and change fairly predictably, when tasks move from the desktop to the handset.
Mark
On Wednesday, August 29, 2007, at 10:07AM, "David Malouf" <dave.ixd at gmail.com> wrote:
>The one bit I really liked was about how today's prominent designs are
>trying to use ideas from a stationary internet and apply them to a
>mobile one and this accounts for the real failure of many mobile
>application projects.
>
>-- dave
>
Timo's work around mobile and NFC has been fantastic and around for
years. His older work is found at Elasticspace blog (
http://www.elasticspace.com/ ).
All the best,
Thomas
On 8/29/07, David Malouf <dave.ixd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On the heals of Dan's call to arms for Interaction Designers, this
> seems to be right in line with the type of "next generation" work that
> Dan feels we should all be thinking about and challenging ourselves
> with.
>
> The blog entry is from an organization "Touch" that I've been
> following @ http://nearfield.org. They work on RFID and other Near
> Field Connection (NFC) technologies and their ramifications to IxD.
>
> The direct blog entery
> (http://www.nearfield.org/2007/08/time-motion-and-touch) references
> someone who is doing work in this area at a very semantic level but
> discusses the practical realities about these semantics.
>
> The one bit I really liked was about how today's prominent designs are
> trying to use ideas from a stationary internet and apply them to a
> mobile one and this accounts for the real failure of many mobile
> application projects.
>
> -- dave
>
> --
> David Malouf
> http://synapticburn.com/
> http://ixda.org/
> http://motorola.com/
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Thomas Vander Wal wrote:
> "Timo's work around mobile and NFC has been
> fantastic and around for years."
See also, his del.icio.us bookmarks:
http://del.icio.us/timo
A couple other people who explore this space and are worth checking
out on a regular basis:
Nicholas Nova
http://liftlab.com/think/nova/
Julian Bleeker
http://interactive.usc.edu/members/jbleecker/
http://research.techkwondo.com/
Look for his paper:
Why Things Matter: A Manifesto for Networked Objects--Cohabiting with
Pigeons, Arphids and Aibos in the Internet of Things
// jeff
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