May 7, 2005
Sub Alerts - thesis project for ITP Spring Show 2005
Sub Alerts is another thesis project involving mobile phones, developped by Karen Bonna for the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU.
Sub Alerts will alert subway passengers about the status of their subway service using text messaging as a platform.
Once a rider tells us what information he or she wants about his or her subway lines— whether service advisories, schedules, or line information— this system will send the requested information the user's phone within one minute.
In a nod to the communal experience that commuting on the subway everyday can be, users can also offer other people within their subway community information about train service, in hopes of helping them avoid the same unplanned train troubles.
Other ITP thesis projects blogged in textually:
-- !Cellphedia
Other SMS subway alert service:
-- London tubes do real-time travel info with Orange
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