Michael Voong HCI Researcher @ Birmingham University

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Posts from October 2007

Loopt, Privacy and GPS in the US

According to this article on how GPS can help us, but has many privacy issues, “almost 55 percent of all mobile phones sold today in the United States have the technology that makes such friend-and- family-tracking services possible, according to Current Analysis, which follows trends in technology”. I don’t really believe it - I’ll try [...]


My Mobile Social Technology Research - Please Help

I’m doing a PhD on improving the way we communicate with friends and family using mobile technologies. In order to gain an understanding of how people currently feel with regards to how technology aids (or doesn’t aid) communication in this way, I have designed a stupidly short and easy 5 minute questionnaire.
Could you, as someone [...]


Nokia 6280 Mass SMS

I just tried to send an SMS to around 60 people telling them of my number change. Nokia have adopted a “place a check mark next to the names and we’ll add them all to the to: list” approach. I think “great!”, only to spend 15 minutes going through some 300+ contacts, adding the names [...]