webvisions 2011 - geoloqi - location as invisible interface
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Speech at Webvisions about Geoloqi and location-based functionality.TRANSCRIPT
Location as Invisible Interface
Webvisions 2011
Amber [email protected]
@caseorganic
Slides available atslideshare.net/caseorganic
Aaron [email protected]
m@aaronpk
History.
Self-Portrait of Steve Mann with Wearable Computing Apparatus 1981.
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Diminished Reality• Adding your own layer onto reality
• Replacing public messages with your ownslideshare.net/caseorganic
Image recognition, processing and replacement.
Twiddler by HandyKey Corporation
One-Handed Key Chording USB Keyboard@caseorganic
Remember the MilkContextual Notification Systems
Virtual Post-It Notes with Image Processing1995
Evolution of Prosthesisslideshare.net/caseorganic
Steve Mann Today• Extremely lightweight equipment
• Everyone will have this in their pocket
Functional Location-Based Reminder Applications, 2006
Sparkfun Hardware GPS
• As expensive as a phone
• Not real-time, download the data every night
• Another device to charge and carry
Phones with GPS Hardware
• One of a small subset of smartphones with GPS capability in 2008.
• Now, most smartphones have this capability.
You Schedule A Meeting
You say 3pm.
You think he’ll show up precisely at 3.
Uncertainty Ensues
15 minutes before, you start getting anxious.
He could show up any time between now and 3:30!
Co-location Negotiation
These redundant messages can be eliminated if you know where someone is.
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real life relationships are temporal, not
permanent
What is an ambient application?
What is an ambient application?
Processes occur in the background
Data is pushed to the user
User input can come in many forms, not just through keyboard input
Information should be pushed to you
A robot working for you behind the scenes.
The more it knows about you the more it can do for you.
Ambient user input
User’s location
Time of day
Current speed (slow or fast?)
Average speed over time (driving vs. walking)
Prior actions (clicks, subscriptions
User’s friends on another platform
AutomaticCheck-ins
Personal location
analytics
Inform users of significant social updates.
Everyone has a unique footprint of their city.
Location-Based Events
Create actions based on where you are.
Send users a message if they're not within a radius within a certain time period.
geoloqi.org/API/trigger/create
Send messages to users when they are going faster or slower than a given speed.
geoloqi.org/API/trigger/create
Send users an award if they arrive in a radius in a given amount of time.
geoloqi.org/API/trigger/create
When you are automatically checked in to your house, your lights turn on!
When you leave the house, your lights turn off!
Location-Based Home Automation
your phone becomes a remote control for reality.
Base-location application
Layers of Functionality
(Geo-plugins)
Geonotes
Leave messages for your future self!
• Sends users notifications of restaurants nearby their location that are below a threshold of cleanliness.
• Made by Reid Beels at a Geoloqi Hackathon
Real-time location-based gaming
mapattack.org
No longer this.
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The best interface is invisible.
Thank You.
geoloqi.com
Slides: slideshare.net/caseorganic
Amber Case @caseorganicAaron Parecki @aaronpk