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AIRTAG introduced a new point of sale Kiosksystem. The system is able to read RFID tags and cards (13,56MHz). What’s interesting is, that they focus on the NFC frequency band, although the obvious target group is retail business (mainly using the UHF tags). Therefore the intended interaction seems to be mobile phone/card -> kiosk, rather than product -> kiosk.
For more information check their website: http://www.airtag.com/AIRKIOSK.html
Provided functions of the kiosk include:
- Express ordering kiosk
- Contactless payment
- Identification and animation on the POS
- Loyalty and couponing
- Interactive advertisement
If you are aware of any locations where this kiosk is already introduced, let us know.
July 15th, 2007
We will be doing a lecture and workshop at one of the most important hacker events this year: Chaos Communication Camp takes place every four years near Berlin. This year from 8 to 12 August.
The lecture is titled “Fun with NFC Mobile Phones” and is scheduled at Day 3, 10 August at 12.30 pm. If you are interested, please give us a visit. We are looking forward to seeing you there.
The lecture will give an extensive overview over NFC technology, available devices, current and future applications. We will also show what we have done with NFC so far. In the workshop we will give a short introduction into building your own NFC applications.
July 11th, 2007
The IEB students team has successfully participated in the first European NFC competition and has been invited to the final round taking place at the first European NFC Developers Summit at WIMA 2007 in Monaco!
We are very happy about the invitation and are looking forward to meeting the European NFC developer community. See you down there!
April 10th, 2007
Another project very similar to Mobile Prosumer: Consumergadget started last year. Somehow related to the University of Art and Design Helsinki. Looks very nice but I have not found any working EANs so far. Their blog is a bit outdatet and I would like to get in contact with them.
January 4th, 2007
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
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
The economist has a nice article on using swarm effects in supermarkets.
November 21st, 2006
We went to the Near Field Interactions workshop during NordiCHI 2006 in Oslo, where we gave a short presentation about the Mobile Prosumer. A review and some pictures of the workshop can be found here.
November 19th, 2006
I have written a short paper about the Mobile Prosumer for the Mobile Business course.
Abstract:
The internet of things is only a few steps away and promises interesting opportunities in mobile business. The really ubiquitous computer distributed worldwide today is the mobile phone. In this paper, we introduce The Mobile Prosumer, a mobile phone application with corresponding server infrastructure for delivering relevant product information to consumers at the Point of Sale.
We describe the theoretical and social context, our implementation of a prototype and explain how starting this market is possible today with available web content and already ubiquitous EAN barcodes. Our approach anticipates integration of the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and a global service oriented information system, which will make this business the next big thing.
Please, download and read the paper. Your feedback is highly appreciated.
November 19th, 2006
