Presentation with Sheli McHugh for a virtual learning session with the SLA Nonprofit Section and the Consortium of Foundation Libraries.
Near Field Communication (NFC) is an emerging technology that allows devices and objects to transmit information wirelessly across a small distance. While it has many commercial applications (e.g., using your cell phone as a credit card at the grocery store), NFC could also have future applications for libraries as an intuitive way to derive digital meaning from the physical world. Placing particular attention to the needs of philanthropies, research institutions, and other nonprofit organizations, this presentation will introduce NFC technology and its potential uses in libraries, from frictionless fundraising and information sharing to peer-to-peer loaning and self checkout.
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Near Field Communication: Introduction and Implications
1. Introduction and Implications
Near Field Communication
Sheli McHugh (@shelitwits)
Cataloging and Metadata Librarian
University of Scranton
Kristen Yarmey (@kristenyt)
Digital Services Librarian
University of Scranton
2. What we look like
Sheli Kristen
(we don’t always wear fascinators)
3. What You Asked For
1. Overview 3. Applications
“What is NFC?” “How libraries or nonprofits can utilize NFC.”
“A basic overview of the technology.” “What use can it serve for the library?”
“Nothing specific so far, just rabid librarian curiosity.” “I’d like to see how libraries can tie into this.”
“This is a new topic for me.” “I’d be interested in learning about how you see this
“Learn the basics.” applying to a corporate library.”
“I am interested in hearing about how NFC can be used
in a non-profit.”
2. Some specifics 4. Concerns
“Technological requirements for this.” “How secure is it?”
“Does everyone need an iPhone?” “Could someone track another person’s check out
history or is this transfer of information secure?”
4. What is NFC?
A way for devices to
transmit and receive
information
wirelessly
at close range
5. How does it work?
(beginner level)
Vending Times, “Proxama Launches NFC Cinema Campaign for Nokia Customers”
6. How does it work?
( In t e r m e d i a t e l e v e l )
Initiator
(NFC-enabled smartphone) Target
(NFC-tagged smart poster)
11. NFC + BlueTooth
Gizmag, “One2Touch Foldable Full-sized NFC Keyboards”
SlashGear, “Nokia N9 and Nokia Play 360 Speaker Hands-on”
12. The Paradigm Shift(s)
Touch-based interactions
Objects can communicate. Objects
can have memories.
Information “just where” you need it.
13. When is it coming?
Is it coming?
• “Industry leaders see mass market
ahead for NFC”
• “100 million expected to sell in 2012”
(Berg Insight)
• But…
• “U.S. trails in NFC phone shipments”
14. NFC-Enabled Devices
• NFC-enabled phones you can buy today
– Currently, mostly Android, some Blackberry,
few Windows
• NFC-enabled phones you can buy soon
–…iPhone 5?
• Other phones via SIM/microSD card or
“sleeve”
34. Security
• Points of vulnerability:
– Device hardware
– Device OS
– Software/app
– Network
– Tags
Ernst Haselsteiner and Klemens Breitfuβ, “Security in Near Field Communication”
35. Privacy
“Convergence
is a threat in
itself.”
Abstruse Goose, “Reasonable Expectation”
London School of Economics and Political Science, “Near Field Communications: Privacy, Regulation & Business Models”