Digital Business Card Application Based on Face-to-Face Exchange

• Ttitle : Digital Business Card Application Based on Face-to-Face Exchange
• Author : Miki Sunakawa
• Affiliation : Tokyo Mirai AI & IT College, Japan
• Journal : International Journal of Applied Informatics and Media Design
  Volume : Vol.1
  ISSN : 2436-8814
  ISBN : 978-4-908181-47-4
  Pages : pp.69-72
• Keywords : IT, Smartphone Application, Digital business card

Abstract : A business card displays an individual’s business information in a compact manner, allowing one to efficiently provide his/her information. The number of paper business cards keeps growing, making it difficult to organize them and track who stores them. In recent years, there are services that convert the information into data which can be managed using personal computers or smartphones. With these services, search ability can be improved by sharing the information from the business cards, but scanning and typing work entails as cards increase. In addition to the trouble, spelling errors and omissions can occur.
Therefore, new services are also available to digitally create business cards, and let users distribute and manage the data. They look efficient and convenient as they make it easy to send business card data and have the data changes automatically sync with the cloud service. However, paper business cards make it possible for you to exchange them by “physically handing them in person” and thereby leave an impression and impact on the other person, even though they carry the same information as digital cards.
In this research, we propose a “digital business card that enables you to give and receive one by actually meeting face-to- face” just like traditional paper business cards do. It is an application which uses the smartphone device itself as a business card, and exchanges only the information as digital data. By approaching the other device with the business card displayed on the screen, the business card files are exchanged between the app users through Bluetooth. In addition, we also propose embedding a 15-second video in the business card file as a function that makes use of the characteristics of digital business cards.