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Mobile Location Mashups
coultonp | 23 May, 2007 15:32
Someone told me the other day that I had been suspiciously quiet of late so this post may well explain why.
We (me an Will Bamford) have been trialling a new research project called LocoMash which allows communal photo mash-ups of events to be recorded using mobile phones with either external or internal GPS (Nokia were very kind and lent me an N95 J) and then displayed on the web on Google Maps.
I video of the application in action is available on you tune HERE.
The idea sprang from Mass-Observation which was/is a social research organisation in the 1950's whose remit was to record everyday life in the UK principally through direct observation. In this project we aim to create novel tools and systems based around mobile phones to enable everday life and events to be recorded in a richer way than ever before directly by the people involved.
We used the location API to create zones which are downloaded at the start of the mash-up and displayed as part of the user information. At the website these zones can be used to filter the images spatially. If you follow the link to the site above and select a particular event then select all users and all zones, before you hit GO ,you can see the photos from the whole event.
We have also allowed the users to define their own contextual tags at the time of blogging to allow more contextual based searching.
The time space blogs can stored on the phone until the user decides to upload them via GPRS or WiFi which will hopefully make it versatile.
If anyone is interested in using the application and site to record an event, and don’t mind us using the data for research papers, I will happily discuss this especially if its in sunny climes and you want us to attend ;).
Entertainment, Java, Location Based Services |
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