I welcome you to the Mobile Phone Experience series where i will be on how mobile phones has experience the way we experience life and what more we can do to make this experience more interesting than it already is. I will start by highlighting on few points how mobile phones have affected the way we experience life...stay tuned...
Mobile phones have really changed the way that we experience life, the way we communicate with other people, the way we get information in our daily lives, and the way that we coordinate with activities around us.
So I'll start this series by just taking you back on a little history of the Mobile Phone. And I'd like to start by asking you to think about 1995 and what life was like in 1995. If you wanted to make a phone call, you had to go to a phone booth and talk to someone. So you would have to know if someone was at home or at work or at some other phone number where you could call them if you wanted to get in touch with them. If I was lost and needed to find my way, I will have to find a map and find where I was on that map and find where I wanted to go, and manually find a route from where I was to where I was trying to get to. It was very difficult to share media. And if you wanted to use a computer, you had to go to a big giant computer lab. :)
But now, I would like you to think about today and think about what the mobile phone has really enabled us to do. If I want to call someone, I call them. I don't go to a phone booth. And people are mostly available whenever I need to call and get in touch. If I'm lost and I need to find a map, not only will my phone give me a map and throw a little dot at where I am right now, but it'll give me turn by turn navigation to anywhere I want to go in the world via car, via public transit, walking, biking or anyway I want to get there. And if you want to share media, there are literally hundreds of apps that you can use to share a photo, or video etc. And you could even live stream exactly what you are seeing to people all over the world, using a variety of mobile live streaming services.
So mobile computing has really brought a lot of change to how we communicate, how we interact with each other. It's provided this always-on connectivity, data connectivity, access to information and more new experiences can be created for people, to enable them to communicate in new ways with each other by using location, by using motion detection, temperature, the sensing of the camera on the phone to capture photos and videos, and have this really contextually relevant services that can change the way that people interact, and really taking computing out in the world and away from the desktop, away from the fixed space. So mobility means a lot for design. And design needs to change to take advantage of the fact that people are out in the world and people are using computing in their daily lives.
Mobile phones have really changed the way that we experience life, the way we communicate with other people, the way we get information in our daily lives, and the way that we coordinate with activities around us.
So I'll start this series by just taking you back on a little history of the Mobile Phone. And I'd like to start by asking you to think about 1995 and what life was like in 1995. If you wanted to make a phone call, you had to go to a phone booth and talk to someone. So you would have to know if someone was at home or at work or at some other phone number where you could call them if you wanted to get in touch with them. If I was lost and needed to find my way, I will have to find a map and find where I was on that map and find where I wanted to go, and manually find a route from where I was to where I was trying to get to. It was very difficult to share media. And if you wanted to use a computer, you had to go to a big giant computer lab. :)
But now, I would like you to think about today and think about what the mobile phone has really enabled us to do. If I want to call someone, I call them. I don't go to a phone booth. And people are mostly available whenever I need to call and get in touch. If I'm lost and I need to find a map, not only will my phone give me a map and throw a little dot at where I am right now, but it'll give me turn by turn navigation to anywhere I want to go in the world via car, via public transit, walking, biking or anyway I want to get there. And if you want to share media, there are literally hundreds of apps that you can use to share a photo, or video etc. And you could even live stream exactly what you are seeing to people all over the world, using a variety of mobile live streaming services.
So mobile computing has really brought a lot of change to how we communicate, how we interact with each other. It's provided this always-on connectivity, data connectivity, access to information and more new experiences can be created for people, to enable them to communicate in new ways with each other by using location, by using motion detection, temperature, the sensing of the camera on the phone to capture photos and videos, and have this really contextually relevant services that can change the way that people interact, and really taking computing out in the world and away from the desktop, away from the fixed space. So mobility means a lot for design. And design needs to change to take advantage of the fact that people are out in the world and people are using computing in their daily lives.
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