Michael Voong HCI Researcher @ Birmingham University

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 [...]

RSMG Report 2

Woohoo, now you can read my progress report: “Group Co-ordination of Spontaneous Social Activities“. Comments and criticism, or just general crazy-talk would be much appreciated (if you get so far as reading past the first paragraph!)

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 [...]