Michael Voong HCI Researcher @ Birmingham University

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Socialight London

I’ve mentioned Socialight a few times before. Here’s a recent article on PSFK about an interview with Simon Davis and David Belnick of Socialight UK. They discuss how they’re focusing on the UK before expanding to other European markets, and compare it with how things work in the US.
Apparently, 50% of mobile handsets in the [...]


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 [...]


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