A few months back as I was wrestling with ways to better inform students about services available to them when I had an idea. No plan for how to make it happen mind you, but the idea seemed pretty cool.
Different thoughts were converging as I recall: The rise of mobile (smart) phones, students walking by services as they moved around campus and images of
Minority Report. The vision that resulted from these random thoughts converging was that of messages popping up on a student's mobile phone as they walked by an office designed to support students. It was somewhat like the futuristic stores in
Minority Report welcoming customer's by name after scanning their eyes... but less intrusive ;-)
Eric Stoller highlights in his latest
blog post that this vision could become reality through emerging technology called Near Field Communication (NFC). Stoller highlights that "Information is exchanged/retrieved when an NFC-enabled device is placed next to another NFC-enabled object." Thankfully, their is no mention of eye scans! Check out his blog to find out more about NFC including ways the technology will directly support student affairs.
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