Another great Mobile Monday here in Los Angeles (special thanks to Marc and Alistair)! Thank you to USC Annnenberg for use of the space, and for sharing your thoughts, research and experiences in the mobile space. Thanks to everyone who came!

There are some very cool projects going on and its great to see that technology and people are coming together in the mobile space. Justin Hall spoke very passionately about creating a very personal avatar, trainable and expressive, who represents its creator and communicates with others, real or virtual. Very nice! He shared some of his stories from Asia and his travels: I never thought I’d see a picture of Fried Kitchen laminated on a Gameboy!

Professor Bleecker presented the Mobile and Pervasive Lab (MaPL) at USC. They’re making apps that make you explore real space in new ways Tracking Agama, mobile confessionals projectCAR, and games that make you get up using the “Vis-a-Vis” framework. Very exciting! They gave us a live demo of stuff they’ll be showing at Siggraph.