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Fiacre O’Duinn: Augmented Reality

• examples:

  • Layar: most importantly, it has a Tim Hortons locator. haha.

  • StreetMuseum: launched May 2010. part of a marketing strategy for museums in London.

• Challenges:

  • physical space: we need to think architecturally about augmented reality. the understanding of “place” is different for everyone

  • social/cultural aspects

  • technological infrastructure

• the way forward: we have to deal with the problematic concept of a single reality when we say augmented reality. there is no one reality, there are many.

Brandon Weigel: Reference from the Street

• renegade reference on the streets of TO for a great cause: the Stephen Lewis Foundation

• most people didn’t know what “reference” meant.

• had to advertise with signs saying “ask a question”, “free answers”, etc.iphone proved useful for tethering technology and a roving reference desk

Sally Wilson: QR Code

• QR codes are codes in vertical and horizontal coding. “Quick Response”. just one example of a 2D bar code. Other types of 2D codes are Aztec; Lifescan; etc.

• advantage is that you can store a large amounts of data

• here are some QR readers: http://www.mobile-barcodes.com/qr-code-software/

• Libraries use QR codes

  • University of Bath uses QR codes in their catalogue for bibliographic info

  • University of Huddersfield uses QR codes on their current periodicals for holdings info

  • University of Amsterdam uses QR codes on business cards

  • Ryerson uses QR codes on bookmarks which link to ebooks

• how to create QR codes:

  • Kaywa

  • Beetag

• Down sides

  • people don’t know what they are

  • need phone with a camera

  • install software

  • linking to website that isn’t mobile friendly

Amanda Etches-Johnson: Designing for Mobile

• size: your interface needs to work on a variety of phones from dumb to smart

• bandwidth: low latency is the key to a good mobile experience

• data plans: we don’t have unlimited plans in Canada. pick the most essential stuff so you don’t hog your users data allowance.

• mobile UX: user experience. the emotional aspect of your service/product. people are starting to realize that it’s not about miniature views of sites, but usability

• keep design and functionality simpleclickability is very important for small touch interfaces. don’t just use hyperlinked words, use thumbnails and graphics.

• save keystrokes. we’re used to autocomplete, type ahead, etc. everywhere else, so do it here too.prototype. pen and paper!test and test and test

~ by jandawson on June 11, 2010.

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