Archive for December, 2006
Microsoft finally released A.U.R.A. (Advanced User Resource Annotation system), a software for annotating products with mobile devices. The research project already released one paper back in 2003, which introduces many ideas of the mobile prosumer. The software is available for download. Please, give it a try, if you own a microsoft powered mobile device. Let us know your experience. If you can provide us with such a device, get in contact.
Cartoon from gapingvoid.com.
December 19th, 2006
Read about the Mitsukoshi case and how RFID works for them [here]. In the women’s shoe department in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, customers can easily find their right shoes using RFID. As far as the description goes, it is used stationary.
(Thanks to Holger Dieterich for pointing out the link)
December 17th, 2006
I really love good journalism. The economist strikes again by writing against the main stream opinion: According to them, shopping can’t change the world, only politics can. The current issue’s title and inside the print edition a great article summarising arguments against organic food and another article questioning the political impact of ethical shopping.
December 9th, 2006
Stephan and I went to the GS1-Germany conference “Kommunikation im 21. Jahrhundert” in Cologne. We heard interesting things and met interesting people. The Mobile Prosumer was presented with a power point presentation and we were able to show our initial prototyp after the speech at the location. The presentation can be downloaded here. Thanks to our student team for the excellent new mock-up screen!
December 8th, 2006
Österreich rockt! Das österreichische Startup-Unternehmen Smart Information Systems hat letzte Woche die “erste intelligente Produktsuchmaschine” gestartet: esolda fragt den Benutzer nach seinen Bedürfnissen und bietet dann eine Liste von Produkten an, die den Kundenbedürfnissen entsprechen. esolda ist damit eine der ersten E-Commerce Anwendungen, die auf einem Semantic Web basieren, und entstand im Umfeld von zwei sehr spannenden Projekten ebsemantics und myOntology. Gelesen auf derstandard.at.
Update: Mich erinnert das sehr an den Beitrag von David Dearman zur CHI-Konferenz 2006: Feldforschung zum Thema “Location disclosure and Information Need”. Der sehr aussagekräftige Titel seines Papers: That doesn’t tell me what I want!.
December 2nd, 2006
