Session Title
Buzz, Shout, Poke: Rethinking the Ringtone
Presenter
Margaret Shear and Blake Engel
Session Type: Presentation
Re-evaluate your mobile design practice through the lens of the most important mobile interaction — the ringtone. Will we need the ringtone in tomorrow’s mobile world? If your phone was a person, how would it interact with you? Would it poke you? Yell at you? We will take a historical, cultural, and technological look at the ringtone, and propose new ways to connect human beings through mobile devices.
Biography
Margaret Shear and Blake Engel
Margaret Shear is a San Francisco-based independent design consultant specializing in web and mobile experience design. She has worked with Adaptive Path on projects for Flickr, Citysearch, and Harvard Business Review, and independently for Nokia, PBWiki, Caring.com and a variety of startups. Margaret holds degrees from Stanford University in Studio Art and Science, Technology, & Society.
Blake Engel is an entrepreneur and mobile strategist based in San Francisco.
3 Comments
Interesting topic! Please discuss cochlear implants and the like. I like the idea of no one having to hear my phone ring. Also, designers could save space in the device by removing the speakers.
Also might want to mention recent work presented at CHI on this topic, “Texture Displays.”
http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/texturedisplays/index.html
You might want to check out T. Foley’s public art project: http://www.locallytoned.org/