-Tactics and Concepts for Highly Mobile People

Fig. 3 Sending an image from the mobile phone in the left picture to the frame with the
contents depicted on the right side
The intention with the squeezable sides on the frame is to allow for a way to acknowledge
that the picture has been seen, in a way that integrated with the situation of viewing the
picture and in a way that did not impose a burden in terms of complex interaction on the
viewer of the picture. The intention with the context-­‐information was to support the
ambient awareness about the distant locality of the relatives. In particular, we were also
inspired by the steward Paul, discussed in section two, who finds that the weather
information is a useful way of establishing awareness on relatives who are far away.
Implementing the experience prototype
Focusing on the potential qualities of the experience, we chose to implement an
experience prototype using a combination of existing technologies and services. The
prototype consists of the picture frame and a mobile device for taking and uploading
pictures.
The picture frame is a custom built case containing a tablet pc displaying a full screen
.Net/Flash application (see Fig. 2 and 3). The application displays a picture slideshow
fetched from PicasaWeb using the Google PicasaWeb API. Photos are refreshed at a given
time interval and if new images have been uploaded the frame will give audio feedback.
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