Entretags.Blog · design, technology and physical mobility

“What information does your phone provider keep on record? German Green Party member Malte Spitz took his provider, Deutsche Telekom, to court to find out. Deutsche Telekom granted Spitz with that six months of information in a 35,000-item document (more…)

Researchers from Microsoft have tested a new method for generating faster driving path suggestions by tapping into the expertise of local cab drivers and monitoring their GPS trajectories. While current drive-time predictions (more…)

UbiGreen (2008) is a research project from the Human-Computer Interaction and Design department of the University of Washington, which uses activity inference to display transportation activity information on the background of an (more…)

One tendency in arts and urban computing has been to combine environmental data collection and mobile gadgets, which are integrated in mobile phones, bicycles and cars. The Copenhagen wheel (2009) is one example. The wheel turns any regular bike (more…)

Datascape (2006) by Eric Kabisch is a social geographic storytelling platform that enables artists, researchers, community groups and others to narrate their communities and physical spaces through a mobile vehicle-based laboratory. The van has (more…)