Category Archives: Locative Media

News of the World!

Posted on January 6, 2010 by admin

Walking Through Time was featured as a full page news story in the Scottish national newspaper The Sunday Herald. On page 5 too! check out the online version here: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/latest-iphone-app-lets-users-satnav-through-time-1.995767 it seems to have captured the publics imagination. Published on … Continue reading →

Posted in GPS navigation, Location Services, Locative Media, Work on Project | Tagged endUser, jiscri, news, projectEvaluation, WalkThruT, WTT | Comments Off

Value Add

Posted on November 8, 2009 by admin

Reflection of the value added nature of the project. 1.Web App WTT has been quite a journey, one of the most significant aspects of the project that has a value added quality is the webapp. I started with an aspiration … Continue reading →

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Cross Platform?

Posted on August 18, 2009 by admin

One of our goals was to try and produce something which worked cross platform. We recognised this was a bit of a steep call but our lofty goals haven’t stopped us this far. As a lot of our earlier work … Continue reading →

Posted in GPS navigation, Historical Maps, Locative Media, Smart Phones, Work on Project | Tagged development, JISC, jiscri, progressPosts, rapidInnovation, technicalDevelopment, techStandards, WalkThruT | 1 Comment

User Experience notes

Posted on July 23, 2009 by admin

Ok so a stab at describing the user experience based upon todays meeting. Click here for the pdf

Posted in Locative Media, Smart Phones | Tagged development, jiscri, WalkThruT | 1 Comment

Geolocation

Posted on July 6, 2009 by admin

Getting Started is always the hard part. We have been very fortunate with our timing this week. Firefox 3.5 has just been released and it supports GeoLocation javascript objects. This is our first point of call for trying to create … Continue reading →

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Murmurs in Leith

Posted on July 3, 2009 by admin

The murmurs project was setup around 2007 and was a really interesting exploration of space and history. Through locations in Leith in Edinburgh a little ear icon had a number you could call which had a story from a local … Continue reading →

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First iPhone App

Posted on May 9, 2009 by admin

Hi guys this is a workshop i’m giving with Jen Southern at FutureSonic next week… http://www.socialtechsummit.org/jenSouthernAndChrisSpeed it uses a small iPhone App coded by Jochen from Informatics… http://www.comob.org.uk

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Book

Posted on April 29, 2009 by admin

This could be good… http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rjhs/2008/00000014/00000003 and in particular this essay inside: New Media, Cultural Heritage and the Sense of Place: Mapping the Conceptual Ground pp. 197-209(13) Author: Malpas, Jeff

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