Second Voice – Telephony In Virtual Worlds

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3 responses to “Second Voice – Telephony In Virtual Worlds”

1. 

   Ian Hay

   October 19, 2006

   I wrote a piece related to social browsing a while back which could be updated to include what you’re looking at, I like the idea that your mobile should help you be more locative

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   Rick Ringel

   November 9, 2006

   Your posts on the ETel blog are spot-on, if your goal is to open up discussions. Two of the three you mention above have led to interesting discussions around our virtual office’s virtual water cooler. Keep up the good work.
   In the hopes you can stir up another discussion, what can you tell us about using mobile device locations to support a dynamic command and control structure? For example, if a taxi dispatcher makes a call request to a street address, a back-end application server could easily route the call to the nearest available taxi, based on presence and location info. Are you aware of any interesting work in this area?

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   Imran

   November 10, 2006

   Thanks Rick! I was worried that no one was commenting on my posts and whether they were useful to anyone…!
   I’ve seen some work along the lines of your description. I worked with some students at Milan’s Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (IDII) who conceptualised an on-demand public transportation service that routed buses and pedestrians to mutually beneficial pickup points. The project (‘Link Us’) was a study of presence, location, digital ID, and reputation. They didn’t build a service but developed some really quite viable use cases.

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