Crazy Hiptop mobile-internet moment
Early today, I was having breakfast with my girlfriend Emily in the West Village in Manhattan. I wanted to get a haircut, so I asked her if she knew of a cheap place I could go nearby. We both wracked our brains, but we couldn't think of one; even though we walk around the neighborhood all the time, we didn't pay enough attention to the stores that we'd noticed a barber or discount hair salon.
But hey -- I had my Danger Hiptop with me. So I whipped it out and Emily did a Yahoo Yellow Pages search for "haircut" in our area code. Cool, I thought; this is a great example of location-based mobile services -- sorting data based on where you're standing.
"Hey," said Emily, peering at the tiny Danger screen. "There's a Supercuts nearby! Oh, cool -- it's on Sixth Avenue, right north of 3rd Avenue. That's right where we are! Wait a minute, that's ... oh ... "
She trailed off and looked out the window. And there, right across the street, was the Supercuts we were reading about online.
Nice.
I'm as cyborg-positive as the next geek; I look forward to using wearable computers to help me navigate the world. But consider how totally pathetic this was. WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THE COMMON SENSE TO LOOK OUT THE DAMN WINDOW. No, my first instinct was -- let's check the Net. In a mobile world, we need data to help us recognize what's sitting physically right under our noses.
Every once in a while I feel like I'm living in a New Yorker cartoon.
Posted by Clive Thompson at December 16, 2002 02:15 AM
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A fellow research assistant at my University has been studying the best human factors approach to help pilots fly in bad weather. What she has found so far that often pilots will focus on the cockpit screen so intensely that when the fog lifts and the pilot can look through the virtual windows straight ahead, he often ignores possible dangers that the cockpit display doesn't know about. If a blimp doesn't show up onscreen, he often flies straight through it, unfazingly.
Lack of "collision detection" indeed...
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That is incredibly cool research. Are there any links to her work online? I'd love to post about it.
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No, I don't think they've published yet.
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A fellow research assistant at my University has been studying the best human factors approach to help pilots fly in bad weather. What she has found so far that often pilots will focus on the cockpit screen so intensely that when the fog lifts and the pilot can look through the virtual windows straight ahead, he often ignores possible dangers that the cockpit display doesn't know about. If a blimp doesn't show up onscreen, he often flies straight through it, unfazingly.
Lack of "collision detection" indeed...
Posted by: Andrew Wu at December 16, 2002 2:01 PM
Ahahahaha!
That is incredibly cool research. Are there any links to her work online? I'd love to post about it.
Posted by: Clive at December 16, 2002 2:40 PM
No, I don't think they've published yet.
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