New technologies – Presenation

Group members:

Clint Smith,
Andrew Kupresanin, 
Sudha Marimuthu, 
Shaun Bryndzia

 

Examples of public interactive technology

 

Megaphone

A Phone call-Controlled, Real-Time, Multi-Player Collaborative Gaming Platform for Big Screens in Public Spaces

• Call the service to enable interactivity and play

• Games can be played using this public device by calling the service and using various phone features such
as the key pad, or even voice.

• Based from Older existing technologies, such as 

- mobile timetable systems

- voice or tone controlled calling systems

• Uses old technologies in new ways, creating more technology opportunities

• Could also be played with international players

 

(http://www.playmegaphone.com/)

 

 

Loopted / Awarespot

 

Location based awareness systems using both navigational systems and mobile network technologies.

• Users register on a website

• Loopt enables users to broadcast their status to a broad set of services and find interesting locations and reviews nearby.

• Awarespot also has a similar feature that people subscribe to online content, put in information that is relevant to them such as date, time, day, and travel paths, and information is sent to them via sms if they are in specific areas at the times they provided, eg Sales, travel traffic jams.

Eg: restaurants, clothing shops with sales

• Loopt aggregates local content to provide a map view of great places and star ratings.

• Enables groups of people to connect with one another by place setting there location so they can find 

each other.

• Can act as a platform for businesses to attract people

 

 

(Loopt.com/facebook/hotcellularphone.com/ wp-content/uploads/2008/…)

 

QIK

 

Qik is a new service that allows you to stream video content directly from your mobile phone 

• People can view it real time online. 

• In addition it has the feature of online viewers being able to send text based messages to the broadcaster. 

• This has the potential to create an interaction environment between audience and producer. 

(http://qik.com)

 

 

 

CitySence

A mobile phone application that displays a heat map 

of activity via a designated area. 

Visualization can show where the hotspots of social activity are, providing a data stream to the user in real time.

 Citysense

http://www.citysense.com/

 

Sensenetworkshttp://www.sensenetworks.com/