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Nokia announces Calling All Innovators global developers contest

Submitted by Jean Hébert on September 30, 2008 - 3:32pm.
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Last week Nokia announced its Calling All Innovators global mobile development contest, which should be of interest to people and companies in our community. They're specifically seeking mobile client applications that focus on social enterprise, health, environment, and other areas. Entrants need to submit their code directly to the contest and provide a video tutorial, among other requirements. See here for more details and how to submit an application.


GPS and Google Earth

Submitted by Jean Hébert on July 6, 2008 - 10:51am.
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Over at Clicknoise I've posted a video documenting some of the potential in using GPS data (logged using a Nokia N82) in Google Earth.

Have ethnographer, (your company) will travel.

Submitted by Florence Chee on May 29, 2007 - 11:15am.
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I wanted to share an informative article from the BBC that interviewed Jan Chipchase, principal researcher at Nokia Design on how he has used ethnographic insights to inform the design of mobiles.  His work includes bringing research teams into the actual cultural contexts of use in order to make better business decisions for Nokia.   

A multi-disciplinary team:

"Mr. Chipchase takes a team--designers, psychologists--into different countries around the world, to look at people's lives in different contexts."


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.

More N80 Musings

Submitted by Richard Smith on October 25, 2006 - 12:43pm.
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A few months ago I got my first rich media mobile phone, the Nokia N80, and I have been using it ever since. The phone is remarkable - although I suspect that very soon these features will be considered standard on a phone - for a variety of reasons. It is clearly a version of what we'll see in mobile multimedia in the coming years.

Marek Pawlowski, who writes in the MEX blog, has an interesting blog post on the N80. The main point he makes, and I think it is a serious one, is that this phone has added considerable value to him and at every stage in that value chain he was able to bypass his network operator and use third party networks  and applications. In fact, a lot of the value proposition came *because* of the ability to bypass his network operator.


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