The following are drawn from two articles;1. Requesting pervasive services by touching RFID tags. Riekki, Salminen and Alakarppa (2006) Pervasive Computing2. Reach out and touch: using NFC and 2D barcodes for service discovery and interaction with mo

This from iDA Singapore report on Mobile 2-D BarcodesThis report highlights that Japan and Korea have seen a development in the use of 2-D barcodes for a number of years 'aimed at simplifying the access of information and the creation of innovati

This article focuses on a more orthodox approach to the use of 2D barcodes, except it adds a twist by using GPS and server side solutions to deliver dynamic content. I'm not 100% sure if you need to go to such extremes, however, the model for con

I've been reading around the topic of using QR codes (semacode) in education. This has been driven by a colleague who is undertaking a research topic on making it simpler for us to create and distribute QR Codes. So the question for me is, what r

See my delicious tags for reference to article: http://del.icio.us/andyramsden/qrcodeI have to admit I felt a little cheated by this article as it was below my expectations. I found it quite difficult to understand what they were actually doing. That

See my delicious tags for reference to article: http://del.icio.us/andyramsden/qrcode This article introduces a very interesting application of QR codes through class assessment and feedback. They piloted the use of QR codes in a similar way to many

The following link is for a screencast of a presentation I recently made at the University of Bristol, to a group within Information Services.The aim of the presentation was to start to think about how we might use geotagging images and geocaching in

After reading Leonard Low's comments I re-visited a piece of software that I'd previously trialled  ... BeelineGPS (http://www.visualgps.net/BeeLineGPS/ - about £15). I wanted to know if I could use this as a field work n

I've been exploring the initial use of GPS with a Dell Axim 51, and an external GPS unit. This has all gone very well ... until, you actually use it in a sustained manner in the field. I took advantage of using my holidays as an opportunity to pu

I've been very interested in geotagging images that are taken by individuals and shared within an educational context, for instance, there might be an exercise that involves students collecting evidence in different spatial locations - this evide

Scenario: People walking through the Square – their storyYou are developing a location aware tour of Berkeley Square (BS8). This tour should last about 5 minutes, and include images, text and sound.It is expected that the tour will be undertake

The Opera mobile web browser can be used to access the interactive questions that have been created using courseGenie. This is great news, if you develop material using mobile bristol and you want to

Of particular importance to me is the need to bring more interactivity for the user within the location aware experience. A wonderful finding - assuming that it holds when the material is exported to the PDA - is that interactive, self test questions

I've been using the Holux GPSLim 236 GPS receiver with this project. I've been getting on with it very well, in terms of use, battery life and inetgration with the GPS software that I've been using. Therefore, I read with much glee that w

In terms of a map, I've been wondering about using a stylised approach based on a Google Earth picture. I installed Google Earth, zoomed into the Berk Squ., and then used SnagIt 8 (http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp) to capture the image at the

I'll be developing a prototype of a location based learning activity that is part of a wider online learning activity. The objectives are to;facilitate the discovery of the history, current activity and the people who work in Berkeley Square (BS8

Well on a rather damp Friday afternoon I finally made it to central Bristol, to have my first trial with the location aware hardware / software. The aims of the session were simple,hook up the technologytrial the mobile bristol client on the Dell Axi

The first phase of the location aware project is to take a small part of Bristol (a square outside the office), then design and develop a tour using the mobile bristol software. An aim of the tour is to include some interactive formative assessment,

This is for phase 1 -undertake the tour with supporting material, collect evidence on the topur using your PDA/Digital Camera, organise this on your PDA, upload (via hot sync) to central web space (portfolio). The PDAs are be Dell Axim - 30, and 51VT

I've started a new PDA project ... well it's been a while :-)This is a location aware project - and it is a loose collaborative project with others at the University of Bristol. The idea is to develop a set of location aware learning exp