Michael Voong HCI Researcher @ Birmingham University

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Posts from May 2007

Posted
17 May 2007 @ 1pm

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PlaceRank

Picture this scenario: you have some leisure time. You want to have lunch, go to a shopping centre, or visit the theme park. With so many options on where to eat, which shopping centre to go to, or which theme park to visit, how do you decide? What would help you decide?
Friends help, and we [...]


Unobtrusive Voice Mail

Pinger is a service for leaving voice mail messages without being obtrusive. It’s like “SMS for voice”. The idea is that you just say the name of the person you want to leave a message for, and record your message. The other person gets a text message with a phone number that they call, and [...]


People-to-people VIA People

I noticed this in the shower today (on communication mediums):

Phone/letters/IM: person-to-person
Email/group messaging: person-to-person/people-to-people
Social web: people-to-people via people

The truth is, people are increasingly observing the communication between people rather than accessing personally-directed messages. This is becoming an important communication medium on its own where, to an extent, spying becomes socially accepted. The direction of links created [...]


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