Future Location-Based Experiences

Posted: March 6th, 2005 | No Comments »

In Future Location-Based Experiences Steve Benford makes a technology watch report on the use of location-based experiences in the education. He gives examples of location-based experiences, categorizes the technology used and introduces the future challenges for location-based experiences. I should make a graph out of this report, because Benford presents location-based expericencs as series of russian-doll style folder hierarchies:
Types of experiences in education:

  • Information services and guides
  • Games
  • Field visits
  • Field science

Technologies

  • Mobile devices
  • Wireless networking (cellular telephony, wireless Ethernes, Bluetooth
  • Location sensing (GPS, Wireless network, Ultrasonic systems, RFID tags, accelerometers, vision techniques)

Future challenges

  • Dealing with uncertainty of location (limited coverage, accuracy, variation of performance over both space and time.)
  • Dealing with uncertainty of connection
  • Interoperability
  • Privacy