Kayleigh Wilson – D&AD Student Awards

Context awareness March 15, 2010

Usability is the number one consideration when designing a mobile application. Mobile phones have become more and more a part of our daily living, and are now more an extension of us than a device purely for the exchance of the occasional telephone call. Because of this, a mobile phone should work more flexibly with your life and make it easier for you to use them in any situation.

To solve this issue, mobile phones need to start becoming aware of varying contexts of use.

Life Manager February 28, 2010

An idea for an application…

A mobile PA/life manager, where your mobile phone “thinks for you”.

• Recognises who you call at certain times in the day, and automatically displays an alert to contact them at that time (e.g. at 5:15pm every week day, you call home. This application will eventually learn this, and show an alert ‘Call Home’). The alert can be deleted by shaking your mobile phone.
• Predicts your reply by phrases used in text messages from friends (e.g.your friend says”where are you?” and the phone notes your position using gps and offers to send your location)
• Calendar function where you enter a time, location and who you are meeting. On that day, you get an alert and your friend recieves an automatic text message to tell them you are 10 minutes away)
• Scheduled memos according to your location (at the supermarket, the “buy milk” memo will appear). Shake the mobile to close.

Communication on your mobile phone… February 24, 2010

…it seems silly that the single reason for the invention of the phone is probably the last thing you think about. As fun as it may be to imitate playing the guitar on your mobile, the main use for the mobile phone seems to have been neglected. It seems to be the one application on mobiles which hasn’t evolved very much from the start.

The basic role of the mobile phone, and it’s reason for being invented is to stay connected. To be able to talk to your friends and family, wherever you are and whatever you are doing.

Some times, not so appropriately.

So I have been looking into ways we use our mobiles to stay connected. The contact list really doesn’t seem to have changed a lot over the course of mobile phones existance so I’ve started to look into ways it can be changed.