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Review of Nokia NFC device

Gabriel White — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:52:29 +0000

“Nokia is attempting to focus on features such as sharing content through touch-interactions and using tags as a way of controlling phone functions. Nokia seems to call these emerging interactions “tapping and sharing”. In the demo we see: Tag access to the system functions: we see a tag setting an alarm, tag access to files on the system: we see loading and playing of music files, peer to peer exchange of content: we see the ‘sharing’ of files”

Link: Thoughts on Nokia’s NFC developments (nearfield.org)

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Predictions for an internet future

Gabriel White — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:23:19 +0000

Into Mobile describes a mobile future – some familiar stuff here.

“Our phone book will manage our single identity and our single list of contacts. When the switch to IP v6 is complete everyone on this planet will have their own namespace and everyone’s mobile phone will act as a server. Everything you do, whether it is in the real world or on the internet, can and will be enhanced by the social element; our social networks will be like air. Displays will surround us everywhere we go and they’ll be connected to not only the internet, but to our mobile devices via a local connection. If one were to walk into a hotel room, a friend’s house or a bar there should be a display that detects your phone, asks you if you would like to initiate a connection and then present you with a stunning interface that can be manipulated with your mobile device. I’m not talking about TV out ladies and gentlemen; I’m talking about a separate user interface created specially for my television using one of the new cross platform runtimes that connects to my mobile and enables the keypad, touch screen or accelerometer inside my mobile device act as an input mechanism.”

Link: Where will the internet in relation to mobile be in 5 years? (intomobile.com)

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Graphic language for touch

Gabriel White — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:20:10 +0000

“This work explores the visual link between information and physical things, specifically around the emerging use of the mobile phone to interact with RFID or NFC…

“I�m interested in the visual link between information and physical things. How do we represent an object that has digital function, information or history beyond it�s physical form? What are the visual clues for this interaction?”

Link: Graphic language for touch (elasticspace.com)

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Near Field Communications

Gabriel White — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:21:38 +0000

“Touch is a research project at the Interaction Design department at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Touch takes a user-centred approach to Near Field Communication (NFC). NFC is a technology that enables connections between mobile phones and real-world objects: bridging the gap between the real and the virtual.

“NFC is interesting for us because it enables connections between mobile phones and real-world objects: bridging the gap between the real and the virtual. The project offers the possibility of radically simplifying existing applications and providing a new spectrum of local services through the mobile phone.”

Link: Touch (touchproject.blogspot.com)

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