… Nokia’s Point and Find is another one of my favorite things…
by Rachel HinmanThere were lots of poster sessions at Ubicomp – but I have to give props to my friend, Mirjana Spasojevic of the Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto for presenting my favorite demo/poster.
Nokia has developed an image recognition technology called Point and Find. Using the camera functionality on a mobile phone, Point and Find identifies objects through image recognition and provides users with associated information.
Similar in functionality to QR codes, Point and Find is a technology I believe has a lot of promise in unlocking the potential of the mobile web. It epitomizes the “Uniquely Mobile” design principle – it’s quick, easy, and can provide internet information without the hassle of text entry through the keypad and maneuvering internet content based on the PC search interaction model.
As with any emerging technology, Point and Find is a little buggy and identifying and enabling the actions people want to take after they identify and image will be essential in refining this technology. Nonetheless – it’s exciting stuff!
October 7th, 2007 at 9:32 am
[...] provides users with associated information. This technology has definitely a lot of promise… (#) Permalink | Posted in Physical World Connection Tagged as 2dcode, barcode, flashcode, mobile, [...]
November 23rd, 2007 at 3:36 am
Do you know if Nokia has provided a video somewhere about that technology ?
Thank you ?
September 29th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
[...] extends beyond the iPhone are going to be luckier in such aspirations. As cool technologies such as Nokia’s Point and Find , Sekai geo tagging camera app on iPhone, and of course the new Streetview technology in Android, [...]
November 18th, 2008 at 2:16 am
[...] de imagen para la extracción información de los objetos que fotografías, el servicio se llama point and find y es un servicio por el momento piloto desarrollado por su equipo de I+D, y permite a través de una foto sacada con la cámara de tu teléfono móvil dar información [...]
November 21st, 2008 at 5:51 am
Amazing! They just made a comment about it at a nokia conference in Palo Alto yesterday. It seems to have a LOT of potential.. new toy, and very useful!. Here i comment something about point and find in Spanish.
January 11th, 2009 at 10:17 am
[...] linkkejä: Nokian saitti, adapive path blogi ja alla demovideo. Google löytyy lisää satojatuhansia [...]
April 16th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
[...] disparate features, such as GPS and camera, to provide a better interface. Nokia’s "point and find" technology, for instance, is based on image-recognition technology. The feature allows users [...]
May 2nd, 2009 at 3:51 am
[...] touchscreens from apple, voice from vlingo, speedier keyboards by swype and point and find from nokia. Here’s a fantastic quote which suggests the right approach "So much of how we [...]