People In Action

A look at Gen-Y using technology - Laptops, Cell Phones and Media Players

As you can see there are many people absorbed in their devices, all seem to be in the BB prayer.

Problems, Opportunities, Scenarios and Preliminary Concepts

Here are a few of the problems I have been looking at dealing with how people interact with their mobile devices, and some of the early opportunities I see with using location based technologies with these devices.

Problems With Mobile Devices

Observations of GPS and Location Based Services

People in Routines

Preliminary Concepts

Let me know what you think.

Interactive Location Based Communication - Key Points

Interactive Location Based Communication - Tentative Project Brief

Opportunity

- Eyes are too focused on devices, and not enough on the environments around them

- leads to accidents and injuries

- People are interacting more with devices, and less with people

- eyes out of environments, not aware of people/actions around them

- Location based services under utilized

- GPS and other location based technologies have great potential to deliver information to users

- interactive games such as geocaching show great promise with the use of location based services

- Interaction with devices is limited

- fingers and thumbs are the furthest extent

- Incorporate the great technologies that already exist with mobile devices

- enable Bluetooth, GPS, and mobile internet to deliver new interactions for the users

- People constantly following same routines

- possibilities to use these routines to deliver relevant information to aid users in their everyday lives

Measures of Success

- Moving people out of their devices and allowing them to interact with their environments

- Allowing the environments where a user interacts to deliver information, rather than the users having to search for such information such as through smartphone apps

- Enabling other areas of the body to allow for interaction with devices / environment

- Deliver a product that combines existing technology to deliver a holistic solution to how users interact with their devices

Proposed Solutions

- an accessory that uses technology to allow for GPS and smartphone use without forcing people into smartphone prayers

- a device which uses GPS as a personal data organizer, keeping in mind time and location

- a device which enables an emotional element to interacting to a device using voice to text and other technologies