Michael Voong HCI Researcher @ Birmingham University

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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 [...]


Two People and Communication

I’ve been looking at a paper called “Grounding and Communication” by Herbert Clark. I don’t know if I’ve been reading a bit too much…
It takes two people working together to play a duet, shake hands, play chess, waltz, teach, or make love. To succeed, the two of them have to coordinate both the content and [...]