A prilimenary plan for the project has been made and it is available here
Archive for January, 2006
Tentative project description
The idea is to make an application which enables joggers to log their movement when they are jogging a route. The log can be used to visualize the route on a map along with statistics like number of kilometers and average speed. In addition, the statistics can be compared with previous statistics from the same route, making it possible to see if some improvements have been made.
Another use of the log is to share it with other joggers by uploading it to a central server. Thus, joggers around the world can cooperate with each other and find the best routes. The routes can be placed on a map, enabling joggers to find routes in the area where they live. Furthermore, statistics from jogging the routes can be shared, and used to compare and compete with other joggers. The statistics can also help joggers find a route that is appropriate according to their fitness level and the time available for jogging.
Assignment 3 – Google Maps/Earth Mashups
Find and report the links to Google Maps/Earth Mashups in the
Most useful
What time is it
What time is it?
Most impressive
Combines satellite and ordinary map view.
Google Maps Transparencies
Most original
Find the location of Tim Hibbard
Tim Hibbard
Best commercial potential
This site combines Craigslist with Google maps and makes it easy to see which rooms that can be rented
Housing maps
Least useful and Most stupid
Find out where in the world you will end up, if you start digging somewhere
Dig to otherside
Assignment 2 – Mobile Phones
Give a short overview of the development and deployment of mobile phones and mobile services. Have the mobile markets developed differently in different parts of the world? Use your preferred search engine to find appropriate online sources, and refer to these in the text.
Mobile phones started being used mainly for calling and talking with other people, but it uses has evolved tremendously. The first real change happened with the introduction of Short Message Service (SMS) in the early 90s. SMS enabled people to send text messages to each other instead of talking, and become extremely popular in Europe, Asia and Australia. The second change happened with the introduction of Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and incorporation of cameras in mobile phones. MMS addressed limitations of SMS, and enabled people to send pictures and sounds as well as text. As a result, mobile users could share pictures taken with the mobile phone with others. The third change is probably happening now with the introduction of UMTS.
The mobile phone market is big and has had a tremendous growth over the past 10 years. It is especially big in Europe, Japan, Taiwan and Korea, and a great part of the population in those areas has mobile phones. In Norway, for example, there is over one mobile phone per inhabitant. Still, further growth is expected since the mobile phone market is growing in several of the most populated countries in the world. This includes countries like China, India and Brazil.
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Give a short overview of how you think mobile phones and mobile services will develop in the next five years.
I think mobile phones will just keep replacing other devices by incorapting these in the phone in such a way that one has only one device to carry around. It will probably include a mp3 player, camera, mobile phone, e-reader, watch, GPS and DVD player.
The mobile phones will also get more powerful along with greater speed for transferring data between devices. These two factors will enable a whole range of services not possible today. I have a hard time picturing what types of services that will be offered. However, I am pretty sure they will become a very important part of our lives.
Assignment 1 – Context Aware Applications
Give a short description of an existing stationary context aware application.
vg – tvguiden
The website shows an overview over the tv shows appearing on the different tv channels. It considers time, and shows only the tv shows that have not aired.
S5
Tool for making a presentation entirely based on HTML, CSS and javascript. The context aware bit of the application is that different formats will be chosen according to the media it will be presented in. This is enabled by the media tag in css.
Give a short description of an existing mobile context aware application.
Pulse watch that measures the pulse and signals if the pulse is either too low or too high.
Give a short description of an imaginary mobile context aware “killer” application.
The application takes a shopping list as input, and finds out where it will be cheapest for you to buy the items. It uses the position of the user to find out which shops in the area that are the cheapest by comparing the actual price of the items and the cost of driving.
First post
Hi. I am Stig-Erland and this blog will be used in the course Location Aware Systems. It will mainly contain answers to assigments and status reports for the project in this course.
