OZCHI Presentation: Location and Context
On Friday I gave a presentation in one of the last sessions at OZCHI in Brisbane, Australia. It covered some familiar topics that I’ve presented on before, but also contained new elements of what location as context might mean.
The paper is available in the OZCHI proceedings, and I’ll upload a version here […]
Emerging Standards: OpenGEO & The POI
There’s so much happening in the “location” space it’s easy to discount it as a buzzword. It doesn’t help that the phrase “Location Based Service” gets misused in ways that severely limit it’s scope – I’m looking at you, plethora of check-in apps.
But, location and, more so, context-awareness are the real deal, and […]
Space vs Place: The next step in context-awareness
The idea of context-awareness has been gaining a lot of attention recently, and it’s driven largely by the fact that the required technology has become affordable and reliable enough to bother. “Location” though, as a raw GPS coordinate, is not enough. Here’s my take on what’s after this sensor-based revolution, taken from a […]
Park life
The first weekend of sunshine has brought everyone and their frisbee out, and I’m enjoying the best of both worlds armed with a highlighter and a backpack for a pillow. What better place to think about context-awareness in parks than in a park?
The beginnings of paris
I’m currently knee-deep in another conference paper – this one to be submitted to ICA Conference in Paris, 2011. If accepted I’ll be heading there in July. That’s the bread-stick of motivation currently being dangled in front of my buret-adorned and stripey shirted self.
To be honest, even without the Eiffel Tower looming, I’d […]
GeoCart’2010 Presentation
Today I gave a talk about the role of GeoVisualisation in making sense of location based information at GeoCart’2010 in Auckland, New Zealand. It was well received and I got some tough questions from the audience afterwards – always a good sign.
I’ll post a link to the paper I wrote a bit […]
Location is not enough
Progressing on from my previous post regarding the subjective nature of locations in a National Park (i.e. that rangers view places differently from each other and that their views may also change over time), I have written something in the conclusion of my OZCHI paper that I think hits the nail on the […]
OZCHI ’10
I’m submitting a short paper to the OZCHI ’10 conference held in Brisbane, Australia. Here’s the abstract put together with the help of my supervisors:
The proliferation of consumer electronics devices that are Global Positioning System (GPS)- enabled has led to an increase in the availability and quantity of data that is geo-located. The […]
Location as context
Our second informal visit to our study area involved a couple of in-depth conversations with park rangers and a tour of the admin facilities at Tidal River, the main hub of operations at Wilson’s Prom. It was more a visit to keep in touch with our project partners at Parks Victoria, but there […]
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Geoplaced
This is a notebook exploring the gaps between geography, sociology, technology, science fiction and things between.
I used to write about my PhD here, which I finished in July 2013. You can download a PDF or order a print-on-demand copy of my PhD thesis.
Themes
- art (1)
- Augmented Reality (2)
- Brain Dump (17)
- Conducting a PhD (13)
- Context (6)
- essay-a-fortnight (2)
- fiction (1)
- Government (1)
- How to: Get a PhD (5)
- inspiration (4)
- Knowledge (15)
- Location (19)
- Methods (6)
- Mobile (2)
- Parks Vic (17)
- Place/Space (5)
- Research Questions (11)
- Technology (3)
- travel (1)
- ubicomp (7)
- Uncategorized (11)
- Visualisation (10)