Location awareness (LA) is an hot topic in this period, due to its application on the development of location based services (LBS) that could offer a new gamma of opportunities for mobile users. This talk will present various attempt to incorporate LA on mobile services and the analises of some unsatisfactory obtained results. In fact, adding this features is not always positive for the users’ interaction on the device. Some results shows that automatic positioning may decrease collaborative performances. Others, shows that messaging based on location does not solve the ambiguities of context definition. The summary of the presentation will focus on research techniques used to enquiry mobile interaction design and usability of the interfaces.
Here are the slides I am presenting tomorrow at the HCI group at EPFL.
Tags: location awareness, Location Based Services, new technology
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when? where? can you record the audio? i’ll like to hear your comments.
will you also provide the audio?
Hi
just wanted to contribute to your nice list of “location awareness”, “Location Based Services” and the like with the following:
“Our goal is to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the best information from the internet to the relevant place in physical space.
We do this by combining the physical annotation technology of Semacode with high quality information from Wikipedia.” @ http://www.semapedia.org/
via http://www.airtightinteractive.com/news/?p=44
This post may not be the most relevant to the subject but didn’t have time to nail down the most suitable. Feel free to move the comment around.
Cheers
Ugo