H79.2472 Lecture 4 Credits
Instructor(s): Bull
How many parts does the cell phone play in the symphony of your day? Sports announcer, smart mobs, beacons at parties, museum guides--it can offer a lot more than just ring tones. Cell phones are the new portable computers. The challenge is to identify useful applications--beyond games and SMS--that can leverage this technology and the servers powering it. Students will explore the social, technological, and creative possibilities of cell phones to make new applications for cultural growth. Students will identify, build and test projects individually or in teams. User interaction design will focus on the dilemma of a device with so much possibility but with so many limitations. Discussions will also include the developer's dilemma of promoting unbranded applications to markets controlled by telecom giants.
