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Discovery Trials – Mill Road Cambridge
The OTIH project team, with the help of many others, performed a major set of in-situ trials using a new iteration of our system and infrastructure during May. The aim of the project was to use OTIH technologies to engage … Continue reading
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Discovery: New project with Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge
Building on the knowledge gained from our previous trials, we are planning a new iteration of the OTIH system with a different collaborative activity. This has been inspired by exciting discussions with a group of people aiming to improve public engagement with … Continue reading
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Accessing WordPress Blog Content from Other Applications
We are testing the potential to use Wordpress as a simple method for mobile information input and management across distributed devices (see cratos.open.ac.uk/wordpress ). Whilst we have previously used Drupal for this purpose, Wordpress is easy to set up and use, and requires less development time to do the basics. It also has a lot of plugins available to do things that might be useful as we expand the activities the OTIH system is used in… Continue reading
1st OTIH Field Trials
After several months of development, two full day field trials using the OTIH system were held at the end of August. In both cases four students and a tutor spent a day working in the ‘In Here’ room (hosted at … Continue reading
Drupal Hack: Getting Pages and Images from Different Servers
One of the issues with running the OTIH system over a distributed network of static and mobile devices is the lower bandwidth available at the mobile end. It is therefore important to figure out the best ways to make use … Continue reading
OTIH Surface Application – Work in Progress
Development of the application that students will use on the Surface is progressing well. Here are a few screenshots showing the different modes and functionality: The first pilot study of the whole OTIH system ran successfully today, with this Surface … Continue reading
Design Workshop
We have spent the first part of this week working as a group to design the OTIH system, particularly focusing on the ‘In Here’ sub-system and the use of the Microsoft Surface within this. This has really helped to firm … Continue reading
GIS and Surface
This post demonstrates some of the possibilities for GIS interfaces on the Surface: There are several frameworks out there for integrating mapping in to WPF Surface apps: The above system used the ArcGIS API for Silverlight/WPF . I’ve also been … Continue reading
Meetings Summary
Some notes compiled by Anne from the first couple of meetings: ‘essential, desirable, optional’ viewpoint on design and system functionality local quarry for the basics / maybe with a bit of desirable! android phones as the desirable (next level) Tangibles … Continue reading
Surface Links
I’ve been doing a fair amount of research on Microsoft Surface development and applications recently, here are a few interesting links: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC17/ – A long but very worthwhile presentation covering a lot of aspects of surface including development examples and … Continue reading