#ubicomp (5 links)
- Lee Maguire – Guided by the Whispers of Angels hexkey.co.uk
Much more beyond this quote... "When you actually need to travel, your personal devices will keep you on track. For example something the “JITwatch“, or that iPhone app that triggers an alarm when GPS indicates you’re within a particular distance from your destination."... but everything has been done already.
- Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: screens in context anti-mega.com
Whilst the advertising industry has one of the longest histories of trying to understand interaction, it’s a very different set of tools that digitalness brings; ones that designers at the coal face of web and mobile encounter every day. Everything can be considered in context, be timely, reactive, and data-driven. I’m going to try to outline some dimensions to think about, with some incredibly quick, simple, off the cuff dumb ideas (All brands are impersonated. Badly.) that hopefully push the advertising into being more useful or interesting.
- Bluetooth message saves scousers' livers • The Register theregister.co.uk
Unlike previous campaigns, which required those carousing to have Bluetooth devices enabled and receptive, the Liverpool campaign used adverts projected onto walls and buildings around the city centre to encourage drinkers to turn on their Bluetooth connectivity
How do you take digital information into the physical world? Print it, of course. But that's just the beginning...