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So we have three (sorry, four) groups at the start of this year. Mobile, Convolution, TUI and Open.

I have chosen mobile because I have an interest in the collaboration between mobile interactive media and the changing landscape of social networking. And NOT because of the IPhones. Honestly.

My initial idea was to use the positional sensors available on third generation phones to create games that involved finding another persons phone in real time over the space of a few city blocks. A kind of anonymous high tech hide an seek, if you will. In the end I abandoned this idea because it seems GPS and Bluetooth are not yet capable of directional positioning after you get within a few meters (although I dont see why it should be directional at that point) However I have a better idea that I will get to in a later post.

For now I think the limitations behind mobile (and locative and spatial) media are the small screens and that everyone in town is usually there because they have something to do. Also there are privacy issues regarding releasing your location to other people but I think they are easy to address.