FLIRT

Project #26765-flirt: Flexible Information and Recreation for Mobile Users
Fiona Raby with Ben Hooker
Design Graphic Thought Facility
CRD Research Studio 2000

Project #26765: FLIRT describes the unorthodox design methodologies and solutions developed by the CRD team for a joint European Commission-funded research project. Rethinking the relationships between the virtual and the physical, the book explores how the team developed experimental services for next generation, WAP-enabled, mobile communications networks, investigating the potential for a much richer interpenetration of virtual information wboration between Philips Research Laboratories UK, Philips Consumer Communications France, Helsinki Telephone Corporation Finland, Infogrames Entertainment France and the Royal College of Art UK.

From the Back Cover
A European Commission project under the IT for Mobility theme. The development of digital cellular structures by the mobile communications industry has generated a genuine fusion between information space and urban territory. City location, time, day and date can all shape relationships to information sources. The tight constraints of mobile displays, juxtaposed with the spontaneity, unpredictability and transience of everyday mobility, requires a fresh approach to how this relationship might work. FLIRT investigates the potential of location-specific information, not only as an information resource, but also a medium for social interaction and play. FLIRT is a collaboration between Philips Research Laboratories UK, Philips Consumer Communications France, Helsinki Telephone Corporation Finland, Infogrammes Entertainment France and the Royal College of Art UK.