i'm quite deeply involved in the developement of mobile wireless
multi/hypermedia internet services, hence GSM/UMTS devices and their
browsers as well. i would like to present - adding to the basics of mobile
web browsing and other wireless Internet-use - some thoughts on applying
gps (/bluetooth) location information on web infosystems design. we talked
this shortly with Geert during my last visit in Amsterdam after the third
www.n5m.org a couple of weeks ago.
my notes from the 1st international browserday are on-line at
http://an.org/browser/ - i never edited them and am unaware of proceedings
/ text/audio/video postproduction from your side either. perhaps by
combinding the results of the 1st and 2nd we could come up with some real
results? i did discuss the 1st day on some central finnish forums and
people were really interested. dunno if Nokia followed that already, but i
bet this one they might ;)
you may also check other writings, dating back to semesters 97/98 when i
studied as http://www.cs.vu.nl/~/ - they are archived at
http://www.netppl.fi/~/cs.vu.nl/ where the following are relevant:
http://www.netppl.fi/~/cs.vu.nl/interests.html (Autumn '97)
http://www.netppl.fi/~/cs.vu.nl/humnet-augcom.html (especially!)
http://www.netppl.fi/~/cs.vu.nl/inet/inet98-augnetcom.abstract (most!)
(http://www.netppl.fi/~/cs.vu.nl/inet/inet98-augnetcom.plain and
http://www.netppl.fi/~/cs.vu.nl/inet/inet98-mobnet.notes too..)
please note that those are old texts and i was much younger and even more
naive back then - after participating in the 1st browserday etc,
presenting our work at the Inet in Geneva in July (http://an.org/inet98/),
teaching and doing research on Internet and Digital Media at the
university here (http://www.tol.oulu.fi/ - where did the translation go?),
presenting the DNS debate in the 2nd international Politics&Internet
congress (http://www.kolumbus.fi/pi99/abstracts2.html#37 .. BTW, updated
the d-day by calling up E. Dyson in New York, those slides not on-line),
working in different workgroups here in Finland, experiencing the n5m and
having to learn serious research while working continuously on my thesis
- i should be a bit more grown up and better connected to reality by now.
now that we have the Nokia 7110 (WAP, WML etc. support) and the new 9110
Communicator with improved internet/www capabilities these mobile things
are starting to be true. also AR (augmented reality) technologies have
improved and gotten more popular and, as we speculated years before in the
texts i mentioned above, they might start solving the problem of
mobile/portable/wearable interfaces.
what we need here in Oulu - and what the Browserday might offer - is both
thoughtful insight in the human/social part of net.use and crazy ideas
from the international community gathering in A'dam!
Finland and especially Oulu, on the other hand, is perhaps the world
leader in this field of media technology also when it comes to real life
experience, not to mention the infrastructure and popularity of mobile
use. also IRC was born and is popular so we know something of heavy net
use.
For those of you who don't know, the 2nd International Browserday seems to
be happening on Thursday, May 20th in Paradiso in Amsterdam. It almost
overlaps with the www8.org in Toronto (11-14th) and the Audio-Visual
production center meeting here in Oulu (May 17th) that I'm working on, but
I should have time - and definitely have the interest! - to come and work
there after those previous gatherings (altough I'll probably (have to)
skip the www8) on the whole browser theme but especially on mobility
issues.
Looking forward to your reactions, comments etc.
BTW: my work addresses are or [email protected] and @netppl.fi,
the first for academic/university/local (the public sector) issues and the
following more for business (Net People Oy). This one i use for private
an-d/3rd_sector_stuff, but as all these areas are connected an-y/way it
doesn't matter too much. The an-made/sent-mails also tend to get
hypermailed to the http://an.org/ through an-fuzzy/selective
an-d/filtering-process (at the moment: # ssh an@global cat down | down.up
but subject to change)
BTW2: we'd like to organize an-event on Old and New Media in Oulu to
promote interdiciplinary media studies/science (digital, film, paper ..
not forgetting the not-technically-mediated communications either), to
bring together people interested in same things (what would they be?) but
working on different fields.
+ an + ~ ~ : (t . !
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, philippe wrote:
> Hi ,
> I heard from Geert Lovinck that you where interested to participate in the
> 2nd International Browserday.
> If you want to have more information, look at:
> http://www.waag.org/browser
> Hope to hear from you.
> Philippe
> Project co-ordianator Browserday
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