Visual Interactivity

Mobile
… or mobile interactive services for normal people
Geoff Ballinger
http://www.mobileacuity.com
http://blog.geoffballinger.co.uk

Overview
what is the problem?
some real world motivation
some fun examples
where does AR fit in?
visual search ...
how do developers engage?

Survey …
how many people here:
use a mobile phone for voice calls?
have sent a message from their phone?
have a camera on their phone?
have used the camera on their phone?
have visited a website from their phone?
have downloaded an app or a game?
what do you think the answers would be for the typical “normob” on the street?
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Brand Marketing
mobile becoming a serious option
often combined with traditional media
needs to be inclusive
mustn’t be off-putting
actually all of this can be said in general about good mobile services …
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The Camera
… has now arrived:

Some dull stats
in 2008, 166.6m handsets (Western Europe) are registered as MMS-enabled. That is a 95% penetration!
over 90% of all handsets currently being sold have a cameraphone.
in the 11-19 demographic 53% regularly use picture messaging, with 85% having used it at least once.*
in the 16-34 demographic 78% have used picture messaging with 48% using it regularly.
* Source TGI Youth Q2 2008
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2D bar codes
Patent No. 6,999,573 31st Jan 2006
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Recognition
the simplest form of interactivity
replaces SMS and keywords etc.
but have to ask why bother …
… large number of media which can’t necessarily be adapted?
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Who’s who
PixTo

Image Zoning
activation of Vodafone’s Champions League sponsorship
take penalties by taking a picture of where you want to aim the ball
send in by MMS to see whether you score or not
true user interaction

Aim with your camera phone
See the outcome in your web browser
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Colour
Nike PhotoiD by AKQA is a great example

Videos
Shoot and Score
Darts
Nike PhotoID

Blue-screen
run as part of the Vodafone Live! Music Awards
think blackpool beach – users stick their heads through the display
picture sent in by MMS, heads cut out, and incorporated into a music video

Snap your mates on a camera phone
See them in a personalised video
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Facefinder
think bluescreen without the screen
automatic detection and extraction of the faces in any image
much more suitable for viral apps
currently all face-likefeatures:
in future will distinguishbetween these and real faces
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Videos
You Rockstar!
Facefinder

AR
What actually is Augmented Reality?
Extra digital information overlaid on the real world.
AR Toolkit – 3D shapes triggered by 2D codes in the environment.
Recently GPS and compass based apps such as , Wikitude, and Bionic Eye.

AR Mobile Gaming
Also “magic monstervision” game mentioned by Paul Coulton earlier!

Visual AR
Specific and accurate placement of digital info into the video stream.

Videos
Arf video
snap2Win Live

Visual Search
General Visual Search?
Recognise “all” images?
Make the world clickable?
Science Fiction?
Product Search is happening now!

Product Search
Snaptell Explorer for Amazon
Barnes and Noble store app
Mobile Acuity Visual Shopper

Visual Shopper

Web Services
How does the developer get involved with this?
Some related code out there – Haar classifiers and AR Toolkit etc
Web service API prototypes from Kooaba and Mobile Acuity.
Build into your apps.

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Visual Interactivity

by Geoff Ballinger on Sep 25, 2009

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