About Me

My PhotoDavid Morton (mortonmanor)
Director, Mobile Strategies
University of Washington

We are on the cusp of making great strides towards the promise of mobility. This isn't a site about me, but rather I wanted a place where people can come to learn and talk about how the promise is being realized.

contact me:

mortonmanor at freshlymobile dot com

View David Morton's profile on LinkedIn

UW Mobile Usage Stats.

Microsoft Surface as an extension to your cell phone

I can envision a future state where social profiles stored on the phone could be transferred to other physical devices like Microsoft Surface to allow businesses to work with their clients in a new way. A device like the Surface allows retail and user preference data to be transferred between a business and the consumer while a person is physically present via the cell phone. On the cell phone you could store clothing style and size preferences which when placed on the Surface the clothing store could automatically detect and make recommendations on clothing that is currently physically available at the store.

An exciting feature of the Surface is the ability to manipulate information thru human interaction such as the use of hand movements to share and update information. The phone is portable and digital but it lacks a large sized display for viewing and allow for a large range of human touch and movement. That’s where the Surface comes in and can be seen as a natural extension to the cell phone with a better and larger HCI and can serve as a physical hub for other cell phones (or really our mini-computers) to connect and share among other things.

1 comment to Microsoft Surface as an extension to your cell phone

Leave a Reply

 

 

 

You can use these HTML tags

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>