Related research - other systems

Nokia sensor

Nokia has launched a bluetooth contact making service, Sensor

Just for laughs

This TV commercial for a very powerful mobile phone is from the Dutch TV show "Jensen" on RTL5, in late 2005. Click here and enjoy - you do not have to understand Dutch!

Jabberwocky

"While today's mobile communication tools readily connect us to friends and known acquaintances, we lack mobile devices to explore and play with our subtle, yet important, connections to strangers and the unknown - especially the Familiar Strangers whom we regularly encounter. [...] The Jabberwocky application allows individuals to view the ebb and flow of their urban landscape in truly unique ways. Image a device that could display some measure of 'familiarity' of people and places."

http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/Jabberwocky/index.htm

socialNet

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~everyday-computing/projects/socialNet

Tag&Scan

http://tagandscan.com

Dodgeball

http://www.dodgeball.com/social/index.php

Hummingbirds

Holmquist, L.E., Wigström, J. and Falk, J. The Hummingbird: Mobile Support for Group Awareness. Demonstration, ACM CSCW '98, Seattle, WA., USA. [PDF]

Urban Tapestries

http://urbantapestries.net

Campus Aware (and E-Graffitti)

"CampusAware is a campus tour system for Palm Pilots that uses GPS to find the user's location and then beeps to alert users when information related to their location is available. The system will also allow users (people touring the Cornell campus) to add their own notes and provide feedback, making this a truly interactive location sensitive system."

http://www.hci.cornell.edu/projects.php

GeoNotes

GeoNotes is based on positioning technology and allows people to attach virtual notes to real world locations. When other people pass the location, they will be notified about the note and will be able to read it. GeoNotes allows mass-annotations with no or little restrictions on accessing others' GeoNotes. It is also social in the way it incorporates social filtering techniques to sort out unwanted GeoNotes.

Per Persson and Petra Fagerberg (2002). GeoNotes: a real-use study of a public location-aware community system. Technical report, (T2002:27), Stockholm, SICS. Available as PDF