MobiTip - Tips and trails in your mobile phone
You may think that you know all there is to know about your local mall. But the mall is more than its shops and stores: it is full of people like you, with their unique knowledge about the place. Did you know that the boring café on the top floor becomes a party place on Thursday nights?
MobiTip runs on Sony Ericsson P910 mobile phone and allows its users to enter comments, recommendations and tips about anything that they want to express an opinion on within a limited spatial scope - such as a shopping mall. Comments given by one person are made available to another when users pass each other in the mall, when they approach connection hot spots, or on demand. What the system presents in a given situation is based on similarities between you and your fellow users, and on tip popularity. User movement, tips and reactions to tips form a web of social trails, distributed over the users' phones and over strategically placed Bluetooth hot spots. Visibility and access to tips and other functionality varies as the user moves through the mall. Nearby users will appear and disappear from the screen.
MobiTip is available for download again
Do you own a P910? Register as a MobTip user by clicking below and the registration procedure will take you to the download page automatically, or use the menu to the left.
The MobiTip team
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SICS
Box 1263
S-164 29 Kista, Sweden
mobitip@sics.se