links for 2010-03-11

AR presents interesting user experience design issues [for through the viewfinder type AR] that involve navigating expected norms of behaviour in public. What the critical comments in this article illustrate is that AR is not a one-size-fits-all technical solution. Perhaps it needs to be folded back into the broader suite of ubicomp and pervasive media ideas about technological mediation and context aware equipment [in the Heideggerian sense, hah!]. Layar also probably needs to be thought of as an experiment that will lead to other things, much in the way we no longer have pagers for example.