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Brainstorming summary

During our two brainstorming sessions in class and later at home, we collected about forty ideas for projects concerning the topic 'mobile life'. We put those ideas in eight categories, which are as follows:

  • Cellphone - Applications especially for mobile phones
  • Shared distributed items - The idea of putting a certain amount of things in an environment accesible for everybody, e.g. cellphones lying around in the buildings at 'Hörn', anybody can pick one up ifshe actually needs a mobile phone and puts it somewhere back after use.
  • Household devices - Logistical optimization at home
  • Car - Support for the solutions of everyday problems, while on the road
  • Information Exchange - Gain Information and communicate faster and with less effort
  • Sight - Smartglasses & Solutions for the visual impaired
  • Audio - Make music tangible and interactive ascertainable for non-musicians
  • Status Indication - A variety of devices which display the status of certain things, e.g. the number of free parking lots in the near environment or the analysis of someone's level of preparation for the exam next week.

With one exception, the 'Status Indication'-category, the number of ideas per category are somehow equally distributed. 'Status Indication'-category consists of about ten ideas, because all devices somehow solve the same kind of problem. The only detail that differs from device to device is the indicated status.

There were many ideas which we considered really practical and some which were very funny (as some kind of marketing-gag, short lifetime but everybody wants to have it first). But at least there was only one idea from which we were convinced that it is really feasible with the current avaiable technology. Furthermore, it was the only project from which we had a real concrete image of what it should look like, how it should work and what kind of problems may occur.

The project, called 'i-trade', is a virtual exchange platform for mobile devices. We put our focus on PDAs. For more detail consult the application description area on this site.