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November 14, 2008
Mobile research: sensors, place and context awareness
This post from the Nokia Conversations blog is particularly relevant to my mobile research this semester, as well as to something I think Scott Fisher was getting at earlier this semester when he mentioned the importance of context to immersion and presence.
One big shift at Nokia is going beyond maps and thinking more about places (locations full of information). We are also going beyond the simple contact card to a more dynamic representation of who people are (people connected to information).
The word we use to describe this is "Context", and we feel strongly that mobile devices will play a central role in establishing a context to the places and people in our lives.
When you start thinking of the mobile device as providing context, you start to think of users projecting who they are, what they are doing, and where they are. But, when you begin to think of what could mobile devices do anonymously, you can see cases where sensor-filled devices can, in aggregate, provide information on traffic, weather, or health patterns.
So, what will a context-aware, sensor-filled future look like? And how will places be transformed when they becomes embedded with context-specific information? I hope to have some answers, as well as examples of what this future might look like by the end of the Spring semester! Stay tuned....
Posted by jen at November 14, 2008 10:13 PM
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