Thursday Engage architecture chat: location awareness

[Colin Clark]

Hi all,

Here are a few notes from last week's architecture chat. The two links  
at the bottom are full of interesting information. If anyone else at  
the meeting took notes, please don't hesitate to send them along.

Colin


Architecture Fireside Chat #2
Location Awareness

0. Quick recap of mobile architecture
1. Context and constraints
2. Chat about our research
   - 2D barcodes + camera
   - RFID
   - WiFi
   - Bluetooth
   - Ultrasound
   - Scene recognition

Models for Location Awareness
* Tagging (e.g. 2D barcodes)
* Proximity (e.g. Bluetooth beacon)
* Tracking (e.g. WiFi, etc)

Slicing the Pie in the Sky
* Technologies
* Affordances/use cases
* Pragmatics/logistics
* web/mobile/physical (a fourth slice!)

Types
* Radio
* Vision
* Other (in this case, really just inaudible audio)

Some other linsk to look at:

http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Engage+In-Museum+Services
http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Engage+Resources


On 11-May-09, at 8:58 AM, Laurel A. Williams wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Did the meeting notes go up?
>
> Laurel
>
> Colin Clark wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> We agreed last week to do these informal Engage architecture chats  
>> more regularly. With that in mind, let's get together this Thursday  
>> to talk about strategies for location awareness.
>>
>> For those of you who have been doing some research into potentially  
>> useful technologies, this will be a great chance to share a summary  
>> of what you've learned so far with the group.
>>
>> Thursday, May 7
>> 8 am PDT / 9 am MDG / 11 am EDT / 4 pm BST / 5 pm CEST
>> http://connect.yorku.ca/fluidwork
>>
>> As always, we'll try to provide notes and links on the mailing list  
>> for those of you who can't make it to the synchronous meeting.
>>
>> Colin
>>
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>> Colin Clark
>> Technical Lead, Fluid Project
>> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
>> http://fluidproject.org
>>
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> Laurel A. Williams
> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre
> University of Toronto
>

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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org