smartphones in retail
Retailers around the world are scrambling to understand how the smartphones in the pockets and purses of their customers can be utilized in a meaningful way. When the web appeared on the scene in the mid-90s, many retailers quickly realized that the it offered a way to sell to customers that were not situated in a market in which they already had a bricks and mortar store. While these online...
Read Moreexploring social check-In
Social Check-In is an interesting mobile application genre that is getting a fair amount of attention from users. Foursquare, one of the most popular social check-in apps here in the USA, currently has around 10 million users. Even President Obama joined Foursquare this past August, which must really be giving the secret service headaches! Other social check-in apps such as SCVNGR and Gowalla are...
Read MoreAndroid Remote Control App for Hulu
Demo of a “lean-back” Hulu viewing experience, implemented by a senior capstone team here in GVSU’s School of Computing. The project involved three primary components: an Android application that takes in user input (queue video and social actions), a server hosted on Google App Engine that maintains user information and provides a rendezvous point for queued video, and a Chrome...
Read MoreShop Social!
We’re pleased to announce the availability of MASL’s latest mobile app: Shop Social. The app is available on both iOS devices as well as Android. Shop Social is an experimental shopping app, and we’re hoping you all will find it quite useful and fun. Basically, we’ve been trying to figure out what kind of shopping experiences can be created in a bricks and mortar...
Read MoreMASL Meetup: Mobile App Show and Tell
What: Mobile App Show and Tell When: Friday October 8, at 3 – 3:50 pm Where: MAK D2227 This is a bi-weekly get together of GVSU folks involved or interested in the work being done in the Mobile Applications and Services Lab. This week is our first meetup of the semester. Faculty and students actively working on projects will give short 5-10 minute abstracts of the projects they are...
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