Mobile Computing

Mobile Computing

Victor Lui 309330351

Cultural Dimensions

• Urban Themes• Friends and Strangers• Mobility• Technology and representation• Framing Place

Rethinking Urban Computing –Why we need to develop?

• Ethnographic Study – What does Ethnographic means and why it is

so important?

Mobile Computing design Example : “Undersound”

• A sound sharing system at UK Subway (Tube)

Devices commonly used in Mobile Computing nowadays

• PDA Phone• Blackberry • iPhone• Netbook

Mobile Computing Application Examples

• Wikicity• IceTV• Facebook• Telstra Location tracking service• Food Watch NSW• Commonwealth Bank Mobile Internet

Banking

WikiCity• A Local Guide in America

Wikicity (cont.)

Wikicity (cont.)

IceTV

• Remote TV recording software

Facebook

• One of the largest online social network

Telstra Location Tracking System

• Track where your friends are

Food Watch NSW

• Pin Point where the bad restaurants are

CBA Mobile Internet Banking

Conclusion

• What if we live in a world without mobile computing?

The End – Thanks everyone