What can I do with a mobile? (activity feedback)

Written by: Jonathan Briggs

February 16, 2007 [2947 views]

Over 120 of you completed this exercise. A big thanks for that. Below I have provided an edited list of links to the places you found. I have tried to remove duplicates and anything that did not make sense. There are probably a few broken links but I hope not too many.

A few of you clearly did not understand the questions and this worries me. These are probably the same few people who did poorly in ecommerce last semester.

If I ask about mobile applications I do not expect to have an answer about BluRay or a general answer about how great a mobile phone is. If you are really struggling to understand the questions then book some time with me.

I think the activity worked really well especially trying to avoid duplicates. We have a really good list of ideas that you should all try to explore.

I will try and answer some of the questions raised in the next few days.

Educucation

Mobile game to help children learn physics principles
Assessing students through mobile phone quizzes
Helping students improve vocabulary
BBC project using iPods and mobiles to engage students in journalism
Questions with feedback both delivered via SMS
School reports over SMS
Higher education text alert service
Help with numeracy and literacy for hard to reach students
Access reference information over WAP
Improve contact between students and lecturers
Using simulated voice to read out materials and tests
Rave Academic turns mobile into teaching and learning tool

Health

Appointment reminder system
Wellness diary helps monitor weight, exercise etc
Tracking system for patients with mild dementia
Transmit readings from blood glucose meter over SMS for diabetes monitoring
Medical calendar helps women track their menstrual cycles
Transmit vital patient information such as ECG over mobile
Future phones will be able to monitor and transmit medical data back to hospitals
Doctors can keep records of what has been done via a mobile device
Patient questionnairs allow assessment

Commerce

Secure payment systems
Mobile betting over WAP
HSBC mobile banking including balances and phone top-ups
Check into an hotel by waving your 4G mobile
Send an SMS to buy an itemin a shop charged to your phone bill
Mobile eBay auction alerts
Access customer data via a mobile version of SAP
Yahoo! PayDirect allows person to person money transfers
Flight schedules and delay alerts via SMS
Identify songs playing around you and buy them via SMS

Security

Nokia Mobile VPN allows secure access to Intranets
FlexiSpy keeps records to all incoming and outgoing calls and messages
Deliver secure applications and content within enterprise networks
Automatically manage your incoming calls

Entertainment

O2 Active (O2's consumer portal)
Use handset vibrations to provide physical feedback within games
Sports highlights on your mobile
Upload your own videos to the O2 website
Identify songs playing around you and buy them via SMS
Upload videos to YouTube and photos to Flickr
Access streamed music from the 50s to today
Wallpaper universe allows personalisation of your phone with new backgrounds and themes
Mobile TV (streamed over data channel)

Business

African operator Safricom allows users to send money to family & friends via their handset.
Turn your camera phone into a scanner for faxes, business cards and whiteboard notes
Vehicle access via ZipCard (for car sharing)
Blackberry
Synchronise your phone and your PC
Smart2Go lets you download maps and street plans
Confidential storage of passwords, pins etc
Enable African agricultural trade through partner finder

Games

AdWrap - adding advertising to mobile games
Lite version of Flash player allows mobile applications and intefaces to be designed for mobile devices
Online mobile game buying application
Gameboy technology built into a Nintendo phone
Single player mobile game. Soon multi player over 3G
Human PacMan overlays a 3D world onto a city map and uses real location information from GPS
Downloadable mobile SuDoKu

Government

Cellular telephones can be turned into a microphone and transmitter for the purpose of listening to conversations in the vicinity of the phone.
Government drive to provide mobile support for all egovernment services
US Military deploys the use of encrypted GPS phones as well as encrypted voip.
Track your every move!
Using mobiles in war!
Monitor the location of vehicles
Use your mobile as your identification or ticket
Singapore government sends library reminders via SMS
Pen Tablet PC, touch screen flat computer provides the ability to work on the move
Using your mobile underground

Communication

Mobile VOIP client that interoperates with Skype and Google Talk
Use your mobile as a walkie talkie through Push to talk (PTT)
Watch TV on your mobile direct from broadcast (like Freeview)
Pay your congestion charge via SMS

IM on your mobile
Restrict accesss to particular types of content
Track mobiles via cell position
Mobile tickets from Chiltern Railways
Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short-range wireless connectivity standard (Ecma-340, ISO/IEC 18092) that uses magnetic field induction to enable communication between devices when they're touched together, or brought within a few centimeters of each other.
Use your mobile as a remote control

TV and Film industry

Nokia N92 supports digital TV broadcast over the air
Program your Sky+ box using your mobile
Click to buy streamed tracks
2 for 1 cinema tickets
Watch film trailers and get film news on your phone
Sky mobile services include news and betting
MobiTv
iMode (Japanese approach to content now in Europe)
Buy Odeon and Vue tickets from your phone
Upload videos to YouTube
MySpace for mobiles from Vodafone
Pay your TV licence via the phone

 

 

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