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• Joe Davis• White Horse

Location, Location, Location…

This presentation is NOT…

• Coding hour• Stone tablets from on high

This presentation IS…

• Ideation – fodder for the grey matter• Think up something new

Yesterday’s science fiction is today’s reality!

Location is so 2009

2012? Not so much. Why?

User context to the rescue

• The user’s environment, tools, and self• Context-sensitive applications hunt and

gather application input by observing the user or asking them for clues

• Be somewhere or do something

Optional: Applying creative context to user context

• SCA for the digital age

Hardware: the eyes and ears of the application

• Narrow it down – Smartphones

Let’s go through them individually, then we’llcombine them for fun!

Global Positioning (GPS)• Or… Wi-Fi triangulation

Provides:• Location (Lat, Lon, Altitude)

Can be used to decipher:• Direction of travel• Proximity to other objects• Speed

Accelerometer

Provides:• Pitch, yaw, roll

Can be used to decipher:• Position relative to gravity• Motion/Gestures

Camera

Provides:• Visual reference to environment

Can be used to decipher:• What I see• Light vs. dark• Inside vs. outside• AR Targets (Augmented Reality)

Two Cameras

Provides:• Parallax

Can be used to decipher:• Depth perception• 3D meshes

Compass

Provides:• Electro-magnetic field (EMF) detection

Can be used to decipher:• Position relative to the North and South poles• Presence of EMF

Microphone

Provides:• Audio signal input

Can be used to decipher:• Ambient noise levels• Verbal input cues

Data / Web Services

Provides the awesome-sauce for richer contexts

Can be:• Collected from user• Pulled from online service provider

Examples:

• Calendar/Contacts• Proximity to other users/locations (Geoloqi)• Driving directions/terrain (Google Maps or…)• Weather, current or forecast (NOAA, etc…)• Astronomical data• Astrological data• Prices for goods/services/commodities

Do you have data someone could use?

Be a sport and share!

Doesn’t matter how:• ReST• SOAP• RPC• RDF• ATOM/APP

Give us some examples!

Read: finally, some pictures…

Zombies, Run!

Parallel Kingdom

Motorola Smart Actions

Let’s explore an app idea right now!

• Premise: Vampires, Hunters, Werewolves• You are the playing piece• Event-based interactions• Proximity detection

… add creative context…• Sunrise/sunset• Full moons• Cloud cover

More ideas?

Ghost Hunter • Record EVP (electronic voice phenomenon)• Detect EMF (electro-magnetic field)• Get video/photo evidence• Upload to server and swap ghost stories

Galactic Empire • Who wants to be mayor of Starbucks when

you could be ruler of the galaxy?!?• Use AR to visualize and interact with trade

routes… (ala Google Sky)

Send royalties to… • [email protected]• @_Joe_Davis_