[Image: Push!Music autosharing situation and software demo on handheld] “Instead of sharing music in front of a computer, what if you could simply share songs, directly from your MP3 player, with friends and other people you encounter in your everyday life? And what if songs could send themselves autonomously from player to player, depending on where they ‘fit in’? Together with my colleagues at the Future Applications Lab in Sweden, I have explored how music could be shared wirelessly between mobile devices in ways that are intended to be playful, intriguing and spontaneous. Mobile wireless technologies not only let us stay connected to those far away from us, they can also increase our awareness of what is happening right here, right now. For example, recent mobile applications let you search for apartments for sale in the same neighbourhood you are currently walking around. These technologies clearly offer great opportunities to design ways of seizing the moment – in terms of acting on or benefiting from your immediate surroundings. Therefore, in our work, we have focused on the interplay between ad hoc, connected, co-located people and the music on their devices, and how this could give rise to new experiences with mobile music – in particular, ways people could share and be inspired to discover new music when on the move…” Continue reading On the move – sharing music, inspiration and fun by Maria Håkansson, Receiver Magazine #22: Seizing the moment.