CatchBob! Communication with SOAP
Posted: October 1st, 2004 | Comments OffFirst version of CatchBob! on TablePC is almost over. Stroke, Position and Command objects are passed around using SOAP. To fullfil the task, each player has:
- a proximity sensor
- indication of the quality of the network
- the position of the other players
- the ability to receive and give directional advices/commands
- the ability to share free annotations on the map
The channels of communication can now be narrowed or broaden at ease.
Meet you There!
Posted: September 29th, 2004 | No Comments »In XXI century, people stopped meeting at the coffee machine:
Create a Java Web Start with QuickJNLP
Posted: September 28th, 2004 | No Comments »QuickJNLP is a utility allows regular Java applications to be deployed with Web Start. It packs all the necessary files for the application into a Jar file and generates a corresponding JNLP file. The original java application does not need to modified in any way for use with Web Start.
ActiveCampus
Posted: September 28th, 2004 | Comments OffActiveCampus is a ShoutSpace and WiTeach like system. It aims to provide location-based services for educational networks and understand how such systems are used. activeclass enables collaboration between students and professors by serving as a visual moderator for classroom interaction. ActiveCampus Explorer uses a person’s context, like location, to help engage them in campus life. It uses Place Lab as localization system.
More on:
ActiveCampus: explorations in community-oriented ubiquitous computing
WiFi Location-based Applications at CRAFT
Posted: September 27th, 2004 | Comments OffMy small presentation on the WiFi location-based applications developed the CRAFT is in ppt. It includes an architectural view of the systems.
Halloween Masks as Political Barometer
Posted: September 27th, 2004 | No Comments »Via CNNmoney.com, sales of Halloween masks have correctly predicted the results of the last six presidential elections.
Instinct and Responsability
Posted: September 26th, 2004 | No Comments »Read in The Social Future as seen by six SF Writers:
Ken Wharton: “Individuals often don’t have the time and/or inclination to dig into any particular issue for themselves, meaning that many people will tend to make decisions using the very instincts that are most easily manipulated.”
Pat Murphy: “I feel that the more powerful the government is, the less people take the personal responsability. And what we need now is more personal responsability, not less.”
Ken Wharton: “[swing-voters] are so overburdened with busy lives that they’re running just as fast they can to stay in the same place“.