Michael Voong HCI Researcher @ Birmingham University

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Posts from February 2007

Posted
26 February 2007 @ 12pm

Tagged
location, social, web

Socialight and Locative Media

Social locative media is rising in popularity, and it shows. I came across a project called Socialight (Daniel Melinger and Michael Sharon, graduates of New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program) a couple of weeks ago, and was skeptical as I knew that there are technical difficulties in location tracking on mobile phones; stopping social locative [...]


Posted
15 February 2007 @ 11am

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Mobile Mediated Information Spaces

The success of the web mainly lends its thanks to the openness of its technologies. Early Internet portals provided the only simple means to find and access websites to the average user. These websites were selected and hand-picked by human editors. This model of content organisation failed when the rate of growth of Internet usage [...]



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Michael Voong is currently a second year Ph.D. student at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham under the supervision of Russell Beale.

His research interests are in HCI with a background in AI, currently focusing on dynamic personal social networks, location-aware mobile systems, blogging and urban atmospheres.

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