UC Berkeley and Nokia researchers used GPS-enabled cell phones to test a technology that could soon transform the way drivers navigate through traffic. In the unprecedented Cal-trans funded field experiment, transportation researchers used GPS-enabled mobile phones to monitor real-time traffic flow while preserving the privacy of the phones’ users.

February 23, 2007 lecture by Scott Jenson for the Stanford University Human Computer Interaction Seminar (CS 547). This talk will give a brief history of the mobile phone, how it grew and blossomed as a communicator but has badly stumbled with the advent of data services; the solution is to deeply understand the pros/cons of [...]