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With Mobile World Congress right around the corner, there's no doubt that some of you have already thought about joining a hackathon or two during your time there. While coding for the sake of coding can be fun, it's probably even more fun if you win so we reached out to Peter Lindgren, CEO of VISIARC, and recent hackathon winner at last year's Nokia World: 

First of all, tell us a little bit about VISIARC.

VISIARC is a mobile cloud company that specializes in mobile documents or more specifically email, attachments and documents. Traditionally, we focus on enterprise and productivity.

You recently took home first prize for your app 'Duudle' at Nokia World's Hackathon. Can you tell us a little bit about Duudle?

Duudle is a multiplayer, turn and skill based game. The game play is original in the sense that it hasn't really been done before, yet its' actually quite straight-forward. You get a word, then you get 30 seconds to 'duudle'. Your duudle is then pushed to all...

One of the great apps created at the Muther! was Yosun Chang's Tap Shake Messenger. It's essentially a messaging client that translates SMS messages into "haptic Braille", allowing visually impaired people a way to read use messages apart from speech-to-text or text-to-speech. I was really impressed by its utility and clever use of technology -- and so were the judges, as Yosun took home several prizes! I followed up with her this week to find out a little bit more about her app and what else she's working on.

WIP: Hi Yosun, tell us a little bit about yourself.

Yosun Chang: So, I grew up in the SF Bay Area, went away for a while, then came back again. My background is in theoretical physics. My research interests are currently a bit far from that -- mostly in mobile apps, particularly, augmented reality, procedural graphics, AI, as well as immersive virtual simulations. I also explore new UX ideas design that fully utilize unique mobile device capabilities -- beyond just...