Category Archives: Research

Discovery: New project with Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge

Posted on March 9, 2011 by TimC

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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GPS accuracy testing at 0 degrees East

Posted on December 14, 2010 by John san

…When East Isn’t East. Where better to test the accuracy and resoution of your GPS devices than the agreed ‘Prime Meridian of the World’ at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, where east meets west at zero degrees of longitude? I … Continue reading →

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Improving GPS accuracy with EGNOS

Posted on December 2, 2010 by John san

One of the things we learned from our field trials this August was that the on-board GPS in our Android phones (HTC Desire, Nexus One) doesn’t resolve position as accurately as we’d like, often only achieving a 10m ‘accuracy’ (as … Continue reading →

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Field Trials at Coombs Quarry.

Posted on October 5, 2010 by John san

For Out There and In Here’s first major field trials on August 23rd and 27th, we visited Coombs Quarry. Our ‘Out There’ teams examined the stone at Old Thornborough Bridge and reported back to the waiting ‘In Here’ team by … Continue reading →

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1st OTIH Field Trials

Posted on September 17, 2010 by TimC

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 →

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Applications for Android

Posted on June 10, 2010 by John san

Here’s a quick review of the applications we’ve looked at for the Android phones for Out There In Here, now that the latest HTC Desire handsets have been delivered. Some of these applications may need downloading as .apk files and … Continue reading →

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Video Streaming with Bambuser, part 2

Posted on May 13, 2010 by John san

Live video over WiFi and HSDPA. Last Friday we tested several video streams from the Nexus One to the Open University using both WiFi and 3G/HSDPA. The streaming software Bambuser on the phone proved to be easy to use and … Continue reading →

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Nexus One: cool tools

Posted on April 19, 2010 by John san

The new handset has been very busy this week, and despite some connectivity problems is proving to have a ‘handy set’ of tools.

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GIS and Surface

Posted on March 23, 2010 by TimC

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 →

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Mobile media with OOKL

Posted on March 23, 2010 by John san

OOKL – students creating slide-shows from their school trips using mobile phones. Continue reading →

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