Just thought it might be nice to see who's wandering the halls of the MCD tribe...
To get things started off:
I go to the University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia. I am however American, I just decided to get out while the gettin was good. I'm doing a PhD in what amounts to an information design program. I'm researching Mobile Community Design, or basically how the design of mobile devices will be affecting the development of communities that move. I'm also interested in related concepts of group coordination/awareness, social capital and effects of design on behavior. I also run the mobile community design blog. (www.mobilecommunitydesign.com)
To get things started off:
I go to the University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia. I am however American, I just decided to get out while the gettin was good. I'm doing a PhD in what amounts to an information design program. I'm researching Mobile Community Design, or basically how the design of mobile devices will be affecting the development of communities that move. I'm also interested in related concepts of group coordination/awareness, social capital and effects of design on behavior. I also run the mobile community design blog. (www.mobilecommunitydesign.com)
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Thu, January 22, 2004 - 9:12 PMI'm currently Sales Director for IT Link, developer of out of the box Sales Force Automation solution called SalesLink, which in September won the Australasian Ericsson Frontier Awards for Mobile Solution applications, www.itlink.co.nz. Also have a training school which is running pretty quiet called the NZ Smartphone and PDA Academy www.smartphoneacademy.co.nz. I was the founder and past president of the NZ Wireless Data Forum and a wireless data evangelist. Have spoken at many conferences and seminars locally and overseas on related topics and wrote an eBook called Unleashing the Road Warrior all about how to work smarter rather than harder. Am about to start writing a new book on Sales Automation. I also write a monthly column for CIO magazine.
I have more PDA's than I can carry. Sometimes people think I am a magician in conferences when I pull device after device out of my pockets. One day I am going to buy a magicians scarf to add to the repertoire. -
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Fri, January 23, 2004 - 1:54 AMHi,
I'm based in London and work for UK's first 3G operator - 3. My role here has been working on implementing the browser based UI across 3's 'video' phones. It's been an interesting two years and I've certainly learned a great deal on implementing mobile solutions across multiple 3G handsets.
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Thu, January 29, 2004 - 3:05 AMYo Phil, nice to have you on board. been watching 3's ads over here. some of the circumstances for use seem a bit contrived, (e.g. kids bringing their $500 video phone out into a rainstorm) but that's marketing for ya. i'm looking forward to reasonably priced 3g cards for laptops personally. Also looking forward to the phones with larger screens so that some of that bandwidth can be put to good use. You've got the dream job - there's fun to be had in those interface designs.
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Mon, January 9, 2006 - 11:42 AMI am presently involved with helping the start-up phase of www.wisight.com. I need help with sales, marketing and technical development. Please e-mail me if you are interested in more information.
Be Blessed,
Rob
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Thu, February 5, 2004 - 5:45 AMRight! I just stumbled across your blog and thought this might be something.
I'm in the process of applying for a PhD but right now enrolled at a masters program at the CS department University of Copenhagen. My focus is on using technology to support connections between people who are in physical proximity and primarily in urban settings - which of course involve mobility.
I blog about this and other stuff on <a href="akav.dk/blog</a>" title="akav.dk/blog">akav.dk/blog</a>">akav.dk/blog">akav.dk/blog</a> -
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Thu, February 5, 2004 - 5:47 AMwoops! something messed up with the link. ment to write akav.dk/blog -
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Thu, February 5, 2004 - 7:07 AMWelcome Anna - looking forward to hearing more of your thoughts on mobile issues. Feel free to post links to your blog in here for mobile related items. The 'mobile teahouse' story on your site is fascinating. I used to live in Portland. At first glance, I figured it was a burning man event.
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Thu, February 5, 2004 - 5:52 AMMy personal wiki (and weblog) you'll find at: zby.aster.net.pl/kwiki
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Tue, February 10, 2004 - 2:36 AMWell I work in San Diego, our division of the company does rapid technology development. Currently we are working on mobile platforms for the dismounted soldier. We currently have Situational Awareness data, messaging, voip, robot control based on pda's attatched to a radio network. Right now we are working on interface design for all of our software and equipment. It has been a fun and challenging year, and working with the soldiers in the field has been rather rewarding and informative. All in all for anyone designing interfaces, watch video, lots and lots of video of people using their devices, also watch them when ever you see them in day to day life.
-Geo
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Tue, February 8, 2005 - 7:21 PMHi Jeff!
I'm doing a PhD at the University of Canberra in Canberra in what is supposed to be Computer Science but is heavily influenced by HCI and socilogical methods. I'm researching speech recognition in particular and how large-vocabulary systems are used by people in the Real World. I'm hoping that will reveal something about how speech recognition can be improved and I'm also hoping that it might begin to show how people actually integrate any technology into their work/play/life. -
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Sat, February 19, 2005 - 10:48 PMJust a quick *nod* to both the above posts. Yes, watching and talking with real people in their real environments, preferably while engaged in whatever activities you're interested in supporting is essential and very rewarding for both designers and programmers alike. cheers.
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Sun, February 20, 2005 - 10:17 PMHi, great idea - I work on networked mobile software (mainly Java but I've started thinking about Flash Lite). I'm quite interested in the technology but also interested in the social aspects of it. I've built a few games and apps which are all networked and thus have the community aspect built into them. There's more info on all of that at www.49pm.com, my weblog ist at 49mobile.blogspot.com -
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Tue, March 15, 2005 - 9:22 AMHi am vlad and am working for and interactive / product design consultancy, and just wanted to ask what does every one think about flash light.
Do you think as far as real development goes is it any good?? -
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Tue, March 15, 2005 - 4:49 PMWhat you mean the great big mag lights with a single easy-to-use switch that also work great as a defence weapon, or those new-fangled LED mini-lights that have the fiddly plastic switches that turn on in the bottom of your bag and leave you with a dead battery?
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Fri, April 1, 2005 - 4:53 PMHello all-
My name is the Nicole, I'm the Sr. User Experience Designer working on an LBS/MoSoSo app due out soon. I was the Online Community Manager (vounteer) for Burning Man for 2 years and still work with the web team there.
Thanks for starting the Tribe, Jaffa. I've peeked at your site and willl no doubt be spending a fair amount of time there, too.
I am new-ish to the mobile design space, have gotten an incredible crash course at my company, but am the only designer there and am looking forward to getting involved in discussions with other design and usability folk.
To kick things off: are any of you local to the SF Bay Area, and is anyone here going to Mobile Monday next week? -
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Fri, April 8, 2005 - 6:58 AMoooh, I must be out of the loop. what does MoSoSo mean? I went to BM back in 2000. A friend was on the listserv for quite some time, but I saw more of the "in-person" community. =) I'm on the other side of the world from SF ATM, but I've got friends there. -
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Fri, April 8, 2005 - 11:11 AMMoSoSo is the latest jargon for "mobile social software". I dunno how pervasive use of the term is, but I hear it a lot around the Bay Area.
I went to Australia back in '91-'92, and had an absolute blast. Everyone was so friendly, and open, and out to have a good time. The country is so beautiful, and varied..I just loved it there. I meant to go for a months but stayed for 6, traveling all over the east and south coasts. I came _this_ close to finding myself a greencard husband so I could stay there, but decided to forgo the fraud and come home.
I was at Burning Man in 2000, too. If you ever went dancing with the Illuminaughty at Sex & 10, you were at my camp.
So I am fairly new the mobile design space, but am getting more involved. There is a group that meets here, called Mobile Monday, that gets innovators in the industry to come and display their products, discuss their initiatives, etc. Someone inthe group posted the audio of this month's meeting that you may want to check out:
mobilemonday.com/
They have a discussion group that isn't terribly active just yet, but it's pretty new...
groups.yahoo.com/group/mobilemonday/
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Thu, April 21, 2005 - 2:25 AMHi, all!
My name's Max. I'm from Russia. eager to know more about mososo :)
BTW I organized first nation sms - primaries during presidential elections in 2004. -
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Fri, April 22, 2005 - 7:38 AMHi, Max!
I'm very interested on the social changes mobile telephony is introducing in our society.
I'm working nowadays on review of the literature that have been published around Europe, so I'm wandering if you could perhaps tell me about any interesting source in Russia.
I've only read one article (Vershinskaya, 2002) which talks about how young people adopt mobile phones in Russia. So, any reccomendation you could give me would be very, very, very welcomed.
By the way, you mentioned that work from Ling (2004). I don't know how to get it for free trhough the net, but I can strongly recommend you that text:
"The Mobile Communication Society: A cross-cultural analysis of available evidence on the social uses of wireless communication technology" (annenberg.usc.edu/internati...p/MCS.pdf)
It's going to be improved, but I'm convinced that if you are interested on Ling's work you will find it worth to read.
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Sun, April 24, 2005 - 7:39 PMHi all,
glad to see some paper sharing going on.
The blog that corresponds with this discussion group:
mobilecommunitydesign.com
is all about making it easier for people to access full-text papers.
There's probably a few I posted on there from Rich Ling. Also Mizuko Ito, and :
Brown, B., Green, N., & Harper, R. (2002). Wireless world : social and interactional aspects of the mobile age. London ; New York: Springer.
should be on your list. If any of you want to be a contributing blogger on the site and help people find this kind of research, please send me a note.
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Thu, April 28, 2005 - 5:15 AMActually, there's no source Mireia. Few people are working on it. Are youinterested in soething specific? I could help with mobile politcs. Write me.
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Thu, April 28, 2005 - 5:18 AMHi, Nikole. I was a founder of the same type of project in Russia. It was called "Mobile Friday"/ Amd as far as I know there's one mote Mobile Monday in Finland &^)
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Mon, April 25, 2005 - 11:31 AMI'm running a UE company that concentrates mostly in understanding needs of mobile users and translating them into enjoyable experiences.
This community is interesting new experience to me. I'm happy to find this. We are doing global projects all the time and who knows, maybe I can find new people to co-operate.
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Wed, April 27, 2005 - 8:03 AMHi Iaakko. There's a lot of great research and mobile products coming out of Finland. If you're interested in sharing, please give us a link to your company and/or projects page so we can check it out.
cheers.
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Sun, May 15, 2005 - 8:28 PMHi there, my name is Chris and I am an Associate Director for a mobile entertainment company in the SF Bay Area called Digital Chocolate. I am passionate about games, design and sociology. I have additional experience working with online communities such as The Sims Online and am excited about helping to connect people through their mobile phones. It's nice to meet all of you! -
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Mon, May 16, 2005 - 6:15 AMHi, my name is David and i'm head of online development for academici a social network platform for academics based in england.
I have done a master degree in ICT management and finishing a MBA in south of France.
I passionate about Internet and specifically about social networking, online communities and sure mobile communities, and online social capital.
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Fri, July 15, 2005 - 4:51 PMThanks for dropping in guys. I'm hoping to turn this Tribe into more of a design discussion area. If you have any design questions about mobile or social networking interfaces, feel free to bring them up here. -
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Mon, July 18, 2005 - 5:22 PMHi again. I have moved since my last post. I am now working as BDM for a company in the GIS area. Currently I am focussed on Car navigation, but I am also working on mobile community concepts with a focus on spatial services. We currently supply maps and directions for Vodafone New Zealand on Vodafone LIve. In effect you can get maps and turn by turn directions from anywhere in NZ to anywhere else in NZ on your VLive capable GPRS phone. This includes loads of Points of Interest such as cafes, restaurants, accomodation etc. Also about to start adding events such as Marathons etc.
We are currently exploring ways to interact in a community environment, eg, where are my friends spatially and how to I get from where I am to where they are.
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Mon, May 16, 2005 - 8:14 AMI lead the team at Usable Products Company (usableproducts.com). We are designers and researchers focused on mobile telephones and related technologies. My book, "Handheld Usability," (Wiley: 2002), covers design, prototyping, and usability for mobile phones and PDAs. You can learn more about the book at handheldusability.com. Our work spans design, usability research, and prototyping for the mobile medium.
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Mon, July 18, 2005 - 6:06 PMHola, amigos!
I'm lucaso and I'm currently working with FreeRange Communications, a mobile software developer, in Portland, OR. Our first release is FreeNEws, a mobile RSS reader: www.freerangeinc.com
I also write about mobile, social technology, art/theater/music, and independent media. I'm a nomad, so mobile tech is super important to me!
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Mon, July 18, 2005 - 10:13 PMHi again, I have also published a book called Unleashing the Road Warrior, it's an ebook, which I thought was appropriate. Read more at www.smartphoneacademy.co.nz/publ...html.
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Fri, August 18, 2006 - 3:17 AMA little bit of a late entry, but I must say I like your site and couldn't resist introducing myself. I'm the founder of a company called ShotCode (www.shotcode.com). We do mobile tagging, connecting the physical and mobile worlds. We started about 3.5 years ago and we've never lost our passion for this product.
If you have any questions feel free to ask, I'm sure I'll check out your site and this community more and more.
Dennis
