Information technology is transforming the way people interact between themselves and with objects around them. Today’s focus is rather not on the computers and technology itself, but more on the user. The aim is to make computers simple and transparen to the user. The user shoud not feel the control of compuers in the process… [Read more…]
March 9, 2010
Aim The aim of the research is to study how technologies like augmented reality combined with user centered design will guide the users to experience flow. Theory Flow According to Csíkszentmihályi, flow is completely focused motivation. It is a single-minded immersion and represents perhaps the ultimate in harnessing the emotions in the service of performing… [Read more…]
April 13, 2009
Giving my summary to the Ecology of Narratives course and our team project. Overall, the project was very interesting. We were using some social tools like Brightkite, Twitter and Flickr to cover the topics most interesting and emotional to us. We used mobile photos to illustrate our stories (Flickr map of photos tagged “narrativeecology” ).… [Read more…]
March 9, 2009
Today at the KERG seminar we were discussing on the locative media applications and the uses of locative media. As it’s also the direction of my master thesis I shortly talked about my ideas and the reasons for sharing your location online. The slides of my today’s talk: Designing the experience of locative media View… [Read more…]
February 24, 2009
While taking a walk in the old town this morning I started wondering about the story of flags. Why flags? Well, today the Tallinn’s old town was a bit different as usual. There were no crowded streets, no noisy street cafees opened, no tourists, no signs of life – only the flags waveing. Just seemed… [Read more…]
February 16, 2009
While browsing for photos in Flickr, I wanted to carry out a small experiment. How does the location embody the way people describe happiness? What’s your first reaction while thinking on happiness? A smiley face? Well, most typically yes, but it was interesting the see that people from different places tag happiness differently. I looked… [Read more…]
February 10, 2009
Last week we had a really challenging IMKE course: Mobile Interactions. The goal of the course was to give an overview of the possibilities and development patterns of mobile technology. The course lead by Jürgen Scheible gave us the basic understandig of creating mobile apps on Python. Programming for a mobile device, which seemed to… [Read more…]
February 4, 2009
Google has done it again. The Official Google Mobile blog has announced a new feature for sharing your location – Google Latitude. It’s a new feature of Google Maps for mobile, as well as an iGoogle gadget, that allows you to share your location with your friends and to see their approximate locations, if they… [Read more…]
January 30, 2009
Getting Brightkite, Twitter and Flickr crazy
January 21, 2009
Adding the geodata to a photo may give a totally new perspective to the photos. The geotagged contect could be found via a location search etc. The coolest is the fact that geotagging photos is really easy. Some ways for geotagging: GPS. Major new phones and cameras have a built-in GPS, that automatically geotags your… [Read more…]
March 28, 2010
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