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