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Amazing Grace: Degradation in Mobile Applications

Submitted by John Boxall on January 21, 2007 - 7:46pm.
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Last Monday, Jo Stichbury a Symbian Developer for Nokia spoke at Mobile Monday SFU about a collection of "Best Practices for Mobile Game Development". With the current state of the mobile games industry I hope someone important was listening. The points were valuable for all mobile applications and ranged from the seemingly obvious (applications must be able to suspend themselves to answer an incoming phone call) to the less apparent (remember to turn off the phone's back-light after extended periods of no input to conserve batteries). One lesson in particular struck me because I had not heard it used in the context of mobile development before. Graceful degradation.

Mobile Interaction Research @ Mobile Muse

Submitted by Jean Hébert on November 6, 2006 - 1:03pm.
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We've been involved in some fieldwork and focus groups over the past week, looking at user experience in interactive mobile applications. We're specifically looking for opportunities for user-generated content in a media-rich mobile communicative sphere.


It's too early to post any conclusions about our work (our report won't be available until December, as we have a few more focus groups left to do, plus coding and analysis of our data, and so forth), but I have a few preliminary observations and interpretations - to which I invite my collaborators and colleagues to add theirs.

David Vogt's Drift on Mobile Cultural Experience

Submitted by David Vogt on May 20, 2006 - 7:16pm.
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I founded and continue to lead the MobileMuse.ca Network so it might be worthwhile to know a little about my mobile motivations, and about what inspires the Network's mission for mobile media innovation at the frontiers of culture.

At different times I've been a cancer researcher, astronomer, observatory director, science museum director, and dot.com CEO.  Beyond Muse, I currently champion a set of very exciting applied R&D projects in learning technologies at the University of British Columbia while leading a couple of start-up companies and contributing to a few public and private boards.  The only subjects I'm close to being an expert on are prehistoric stone circles (the Stonehenges of the world) and Native American cosmological creation myths. My most intimate connection with mobile technologies is that I commute by bicycle everywhere, all year.


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