Category Archives: social

Mobile HCI 2008 Poster

My poster for Mobile HCI 2008. The main aim of this poster is to illustrate my findings regarding location disclosure privacy in mobile awareness systems. Location deception is a real practice, so I argue here that any UI supporting location disclosure to real people should support the ability to manipulate exactly what others see. Mobile …

April 24, 2008 – 3:54 pm | By Michael Voong | Posted in culture, interaction, location, mobile, phd, privacy, social | Comments (0)

Facebook for iPhone

If you don’t know already, Facebook has an iPhone-optimised version of its desktop site. In some ways, the simple context + refine aspect beats the full sized version when you just want that quick fix. With this, I could imagine someone using a standalone touch screen purely for Facebook and putting it besides their desktop …

August 16, 2007 – 4:35 pm | By Michael Voong | Posted in mobile, social, usability | Comments (0)

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 …

May 8, 2007 – 4:01 pm | By Michael Voong | Posted in communication, social | Comments (0)