The weblog ‘Putting people first’ links to three interesting papers from CHI 2008 on mobile payments.
From meiwaku to tokushita!
Lessons for digital money design from Japan. Mainwaring, S., March, W., and Maurer, B. 2008. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
“As an example of ubiquitous computing in the [...]
Tom Igoe’s new book Making things talk arrived today, full of lovely projects and code examples. Tom’s previous book Physical computing has been the definitive reference for all hardware hacking that goes on at AHO and in the Touch project. Making things talk is structured into specific projects, and covers technology as part of practical [...]
Discovered today is Airtag, makers of the AIR kiosk:
“AIRKIOSK is an interactive kiosk especially designed for points of sales.
AIRKIOSK is connected to the AIRTAG central application platform.
Multi-standard, it can read all RFID tags and cards (13,56MHz). Applications include: Express ordering kiosk, Contactless payment, Identification and animation on the POS, Loyalty and couponning, Interactive advertisement.”
Their overall [...]
I had the pleasure of meeting Charlie Gere at the Architecture and Situated Technologies symposium in October, where he gave an intriguing introduction to The Liturgy of Things. You can listen to the whole talk by following that last link, but the main points revolve around cultural rituals that bind communities. As Charlie explained, [...]
The workshop Mobile Interaction with the Real World (MIRW 2006) at Mobile HCI in Espoo was a timely gathering of practitioners concerned with similar issues: connecting the mobile phone to places and things.
The proceedings [pdf] are now online, and well worth looking at.
Some interesting excerpts from the papers:
Telling a Story on a Tag: The Importance [...]
There are a growing number of resources for RFID and related technologies, so I thought it would be useful to compile a list of the resources and reading material that I am finding valuable.
It may be updated as new things become available.
Books
Some recommended books on RFID theory and practice.
RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy
This is [...]
A snapshot of future directions:
RFID Applications, security and privacy
Fitting the task to the man
Shaping things
Thoughtless acts
Objects of Desire
The meaning of things
Spychips
Touch is a research project that investigates Near Field Communication (NFC), a technology that enables connections between mobile phones and physical things. We are developing applications and services that enable people to interact with everyday objects and situations through their mobile devices.
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