The Nation Western Fine Arts Musuem in Japan have made use of the popularity of the Nintendo DS portable gaming console in a location-dependent information service. Users pick up a DS on entry, and wi-fi access points compute positioning data to control the interactive experience on the handheld device. I think this system is great [...]
Motivated by the social courtesy of people "neatly folding Metro newspapers and leaving it on the side of their seat next to the window", researchers want to apply it to music sharing. They want to explore the social and cultural phenomena of music sharing through bluetooth-enabled access points which afford short-term, spontaneous interaction. This project [...]
I’ve been thinking about online social networks (OSNs for now) and why people use them, sparked by a discussion with my supervisor. OSNs such as Facebook.com (FB for now) are interesting for researchers because they show an example of a mass social phenomena, and they give a unique window from which we can observe the [...]
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