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October 21, 2003
Patholog @04:09 PM
Project Description:
The Patholog is a shard of the mobile project developed this summer at the mobile research lab by Scott Fisher, Mark Bolas, Will Carter, Todd Furmanski, Kurt MacDonald and Tripp Millican. The summer project resulted in the construction of some basic authoring tools for the creation of location-based mobile media. In addition to the proposed run-and-chase model of the zombie university game, the patholog is a project designed to put those tools to use and develop engaging mobile media systems.
As a proof of concept, the Patalog will allow users to walk though the USC campus, and, armed solely with a GPS device, dynamically generate weblogs based on the path taken. Before they leave from their home, users throw a gps unit into their bag or purse. The GPS logs tracking points from the user at a certain sampling rate as they move through the physical space. As these tracking points are logged in a file, they are also cross-referenced with the content database to determine if the user has passed through a given point. Once the user is finished walking around campus, they return home and view a dynamically generated weblog based on where they travelled. This page created by storing points in the content database that the user has walked though, and then displaying content such as sound or images that are embedded into that location. This data waits to be published in a weblog format, displaying the place visited, content associated with the spot, and links that point the user or other web viewers toward more information about the location. The user then is able to annotate their experience at each place, and publish the path as a blog.
To Do:
- Author specific points along the USC Path using mobile authoring tools.
- Create a script that dynamically serves up the weblog and allows users to annotate text and images.
Timeline:
Next 2-3 weeks
- have backend polished and generating blogs based with fake GPS data and mocked up content
- get a handle on the best GPS sampling rate for the project (how often do we track the user's location)
Last 2 or so weeks
- Author and test system
- document a live experience using "video technology"
Participants: Tripp Millican, Kurt MacDonald, Todd Furmanski, and Will Carter
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