This 10-20p Masters Thesis aims to explore tagging and semiotic dynamics on mobile devices. You should have a suitable background in linguistics, computer science or equivalent, with knowledge of mobile platforms.

[...] Tagging today thus allows us to categorize and search for content. Another important aspect is feedback mechanisms that allow users to react and interact with previous tags and their relationships. In e.g. del.icio.us the user will get recommendations of common tags for a particular object. Is a system then “teaching” the user about the semantic meaning between tags and objects?

This project has started and is under investigation by the ISD-students Rakesh Tanange and Malik Ammar.

Practically, this means that a friend of mine in my mobile social network leaves an interesting note or tag on a club or restaurant for example. This might be personalized (even a surprise tag?), for his network or for general public. It might be on the map closeby only (as to tease) or on a broader map (as to inform).