Demon Mobile: Student Life In Your Pocket?
(January 2008)
Demon Mobile was a concept web 2.0 mobile application prototyped by myself, John Ashmore and Ben Harvey at De Montfort University, Leicester. The original questionnaire used during the group's primary research is still online and can be found here. Over 100 people (mostly DMU students and staff) helped fill in the simple questionnaire and for that we were very greatful.
The above video clip demonstrates a prototype of Demon Mobile, a new concept application proposed to bring WEB 2.0 functionality to DMU student information services. Particular focus has been on incorporating RSS and folksonomy collaborative tagging to aid in diseminating information through DMU students. This will lead to a more semantic DMU information network and prevent busy students from information overload.
About the prototype
In the news section stories are displayed in an RSS feed and students have the ability to tag news stories. This is so a feature can be implemented that will allow students to filter out news via their chosen tags. They receive only what is relevant to them. Below is the iPhone style prototype which is much improved I am sure you will agree.
In the library loans section, books are displayed in an RSS feed in order of date due back and students have the ability to tag books and listen for specific tags. For example zoe a law student reads a book called "Traffic Law 1800 - 1900" and assign a tag called "1864 witman vs witman". Other law students looking for information on this case could then easily be made aware of this book because in their tag preferences they have chosen to listen for anything being tagged as "1864 witman vs witman".
In the entertainment section information is again presented in an RSS feed style format and students have the ability to tag stories and upload, download, rate photos etc.
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