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HomePageUbiquitous Computing for Mobile Devices @ ITP (ver. 2006)instructor: Dennis Crowley (dens@dodgeball.com)
meeting: Tues 6:30 - 9p
office hours: Tues 9 - 10p (or by appointment) sign up
FINALS
MIDTERMS
STUDENTSGive us an overview of why you signed up for this class, your interest in the mobile space and what skills (tech / design, etc.) you bring with you. Be sure to tell us about the phone you have and the carrier you use too
WEELY NOTES
CLASS PRESENTATIONS
WEEKLY RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTSWEEK 1 - Give Us a Run-Down of Any Text-Messaging App
e.g. [Google SMS], [dodgeball], [Yellow Arrow], [American Idol polling], etc
WEEK 2 - Create a blog entry about any camera phone application. Find an example of a camera phone game, a group camera phone moblog (Flickr?), a UPC / barcode lookup service, etc. (Don't be afraid to write about things that are available outside the US!). Tell us about what the product does, the user experience and what you could do to improve that experience.
WEEK 3 - Blog it up about a location-based service you've had experience with (think: Google Local / Maps, MapQuest, Vindigo, 411, CitySearch). How is this application aware of your location? What type of services does it provide? What would make it better? Easier? Smarter? Are they any privacy concerns with this app?
WEEK 4 - Blog it up about a mobile application that gets more interesting as more people get involved (think: dating, games, social software).
Also, please link to your midterm proposal + wireframes:
WEEK 5 - Find an external data source that may be of use to your application and come up with a strategy to use it as your own? Think: What's the best way to grab listings from http://www.upcoming.org. What if I want to grab movie listings from Google's search results?
WEEK 7 - Blog it up about a mobile application for camera phones that involves some type of image recognition (think: UPC / barcodes, image-based language translation systems, etc). You may want to revisit the blog assignments from Week 3.
WEEK 8 - 1. Blog it up about a way you could use a camera phone + image recognition system for a NYC-related app. Be original and skip the "semacode bus schedule"example - for inspiration look at what the guys from YellowArrow (http://www.yellowarrow.org) and FoundCity (http://www.foundcity.com) did with using text messaging to annotate public space.
2. Blog it up about a project / product for mobile phones that lets users interact with a physical object (think: Tivo, home automation, jukebox, installation art). Bonus points if you can find an app that lives in an existing public space).
WEEK 9 - 1. Find an example (and blog it up) it up about an application that uses a mobile device to control a physical object in a public space OR an application that gives users a sense of presence (buddy lists, etc.) For inspiration, look at what companies like Meetro (http://www.meetro.com) are doing with location-based IM.
2. Let's look at other ways we can provide services to mobile phones. We've all used IVR (voice) applications - Moviefone, Amtrak, 411- so blog it up about one you've used recently. Tell us about the experience - was it positive or negative? Would this experience work as a text-messaging app?
3. Take a look at the services BeVocal provides through their BeVocal Cafe Developer program (http://cafe.bevocal.com/) and the VXML tutorial (http://cafe.bevocal.com/docs/vxml/).
4. Sign up for a free account at: http://cafe.bevocal.com/account/signup.jsp
FINAL PROJECT PROPOSALS - Give me a one paragraph description of what you want to do for your final project. Same deal as midterm - who is it for, what does it do, etc... but explain to me how this is better / different than your midterm (if applicable) and what tech you'll be using.
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