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Augmenting the City: The Design of a Context-Aware Mobile Web Site
Abstract
We present the design of “Just-for-Us” - a context-aware web site for mobile devices augmenting the social experience of the city. Informing design, field studies of social groups’ situated social interactions were carried out in a new civic space in Melbourne, Australia followed by paper prototyping and implementation of a functional mobile web site.
The produced solution augments the city through web-based access to a digital layer of information about people, places and activities adapted to users’ physical and social context and their history of social interactions in the city. The system was evaluated in lab and field, validating the fundamental idea but also identifying a number of shortcomings.
Keywords
Context-Aware Computing, Handheld Devices and Mobile Computing, Web Services, Ethnography.
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First presented at the conference on Designing for User eXperience, November 3-5, 2005, San Francisco, CA
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Jesper + Jeni
CHeck out this, the last 4 blogs:
http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog /
These guys from MIT are apparently making some real $ with context-aware applications. Are you familiar with this company, www.wi5d.net , and who owns them? Pretty cool stuff happening at MIT...
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