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Location-Based Guides Cities / Museums / Campuses

Location-Based Guides Cities / Museums / Campuses. Matt Adcock Ambient Intelligence Course MIT Media Lab, Spring 2006. The Plan…. Research Projects Museum Guides Novel Displays Location-based Guide Authoring. CyberGuide Georgia Institute of Technology (1996).

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Location-Based Guides Cities / Museums / Campuses

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  1. Location-Based GuidesCities / Museums / Campuses Matt Adcock Ambient Intelligence Course MIT Media Lab, Spring 2006

  2. The Plan… • Research Projects • Museum Guides • Novel Displays • Location-based Guide Authoring

  3. CyberGuideGeorgia Institute of Technology (1996) • A mobile hand-held context-aware tour guide • Tracks location; orientation; usage history • Designed as a suitable replacement for a map + information packet of the monthly open house tours • Can use tracking logs for visitor follow-up • http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/fce/cyberguide/index.html

  4. CyberGuide showed that… • context-aware applications can be made with equipment that is readily available. • absolute positioning information throughout an entire space is not so important. • It is far more useful to know what someone is looking at than to know someone's exact physical position and orientation. • It is better to separate the positioning system from the communications system.

  5. ActiveCampus(UCSD, 2002- ) • An exploration of wireless location-aware computing in the university setting. • Design Rules: • Infrastructure and end-user technology would build on portable standards • Applications serve basic HTML • Minimal use of client resources • Interfaces must be easy to grasp, even in a dynamic setting.

  6. Active Campus Explorer • Support location-aware IM, maps, annotations, digital graffiti. • Make campus “transparent” – create serendipitous learning opportunities • Support contextual and asynchronous discourse • Geo-location by signal strengths.

  7. BMW Personal Navigator(Saarland University, DFKI GmbH and BMW Research, 2004) • Itinerary created at home, and kept on central webserver. • Same information is used to create guides for car and pedestrian navigation. • http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=964442.964473

  8. The GUIDE Project(Lancaster University, 1999) • Designed to give tourists more flexibility • Delivers context sensitive and dynamic Information • Tablet PC with WiFi • Position calculated from signal strength • Photos used for navigation • http://www.guide.lancs.ac.uk/

  9. For use Before, During and After visit. Takes into account both current location and viewing history. Provides ‘tips’ about nearby ‘tours’ that you might like. HIPPIE(GMD, 1999)

  10. Special web pages are marked with activation parameters (lat, long, range, and temporal). Pages are cached when user is nearby. GPS + direction sensed with custom hardware. Philosophy is somewhat similar to E-Lens Websigns(HP, 2001-2003)

  11. Sotto Voice(PARC, 2001-2004) • Audio guidebook that uses a 'world in miniature‘ interface as a ‘location tracker‘. • Emphasis on being able to share the guide. • Also exploring the role of conversation in mobile audio.

  12. Mobile Bristol • Audio guide to the Bristol riot of 1831 • Visitor is guided by a desire to uncover the historical story. • Stories are ‘locically’ consistant, despite ‘random’ access. • http://www.mobilebristol.com/QueenSq.html

  13. Savannah(NESTA Futurelab, Mobile Bristol, BBC and MRL, 2004) • A ‘virtual’ natural history museum (video from website) • http://www.nestafuturelab.org/showcase/savannah/savannah.htm

  14. eRuv: A Street History in Semacode(Elliott Malkin, 2005) • Digital graffiti installed along the route of the former Third Avenue elevated train line in lower Manhattan. • Pedestrians with camera phones can access location-specific historical content linked through Semacodes • http://www.dziga.com/eruv/

  15. //MUKANA • A wearable guide for the visually impaired. • http://www.saumadesign.net/mukana.htm

  16. Melodius Walkabout(Richard Etter, Furtwangen University, 2005) • Follow your music to your destination • PDA + Bluetooth GPS • A GUI is used to set route • http://www.richardetter.net/thesis.php

  17. CabBoots • Virtual paths can be communicated through shoes that modify their angle artificially. • http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/007133.php

  18. TownPocket(NTT DoCoMo / TechFarm / URAHARA.ORG, 2005) • Bookmarking of shopping locations in Harajuku, Tokyo • Uses QR codes with cameraphones • Uses RFID with ‘wallet phones’ • Customers can access info about bookmarked stores • Stores can SMS to customers

  19. Geoskating • “Ambient Authoring” • http://www.geoskating.com/

  20. Drive around the city with a GPSr and a laptop. Automatcally logs and the wifi coverage. Maps created later by uploading tracking data. Wardirving

  21. Open Street Map • Created by volunteers as they track their daily journeys • http://www.openstreetmap.org/

  22. Parting thoughts… • Location based guiding is still a young field • Standards and content seem to be barriers • Content creation can be location based • Might people be willing to give up some privacy for personal and public benefit? • e.g. tracking data creating street maps.

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