Location Based Media

Here we explore how technology can be applied to support inquiry learning spanning a range of contexts. The development process of a location-based inquiry learning toolset is presented for a secondary school GCSE Geography project. The design framework used and the process of participatory development is discussed with regard to the codevelopment of the activities and tools involved in an inquiry project. The lessons learned relate to the formation of a motivational context for the inquiry; the role of personal data collection in the ...

Mobile devices are gradually becoming ubiquitous and useful for personal information management and communication through different channels, such as instant messaging, social networking, or news feeds. This mobile revolution depends on two paradigms: firstly, the mobility of people and information, and secondly, the personalisation and contextualisation of information. This leads to new understandings of connectedness, interaction, participation, and context. In the field of distance education these paradigms ...

This final section of the report has been reproduced from ���D3. 1 The STELLAR Rendez-Vous I report and white papers���, published in 2009 by the STELLAR Network of Excellence. It is included here for completeness; we, as co-authors, felt that it was important to look back at the main contributions to theworkshop and also where the challenges lie for the future. This chapter addresses two critical questions:-What has been learned from this workshop, especially in respect to the STELLAR Grand Challenges (���Connecting learners���,��� ...

This final section of the report has been reproduced from ���D3. 1 The STELLAR Rendez-Vous I report and white papers���, published in 2009 by the STELLAR Network of Excellence. It is included here for completeness; we, as co-authors, felt that it was important to look back at the main contributions to theworkshop and also where the challenges lie for the future. This chapter addresses two critical questions:-What has been learned from this workshop, especially in respect to the STELLAR Grand Challenges (���Connecting learners���,��� ...

In this first STELLAR trend report we survey the more distant future of TEL, as reflected in the roadmaps; we compare the visions with trends in TEL research and TEL practice. This generic overview is complemented by a number of small-scale studies, which focus on a specific technology, approach or pedagogical model.

This final section of the report has been reproduced from ���D3. 1 The STELLAR Rendez-Vous I report and white papers���, published in 2009 by the STELLAR Network of Excellence. It is included here for completeness; we, as co-authors, felt that it was important to look back at the main contributions to theworkshop and also where the challenges lie for the future. This chapter addresses two critical questions:-What has been learned from this workshop, especially in respect to the STELLAR Grand Challenges (���Connecting learners���,��� ...

Location-based games use smartphones and other location-aware devices to incorporate their players' actions in everyday, physical spaces-the streets and public spaces of the city-into the virtual world of the game. Scholars and designers of these games often claim that they reconfigure their players' relationship with the people and environment around them. They argue these games either engage and immerse players more deeply in the spaces of the game or distance and detach them from the physical environment through the screen interface. To date, however, relatively few detailed empirical studies of these games have been undertaken to test out and critique these claims. This article presents a study of the 2017 iteration of the location-based augmented reality game Wayfinder Live, in which players use their phones to search for and scan urban codes hidden across Melbourne's laneways, alleys, and public spaces. Players of the game were interviewed and invited to reflect on their experience. This article relates these experiences to the design and development of the game, particularly to five play design principles that characterize its approach to haptic play in urban space. We begin by outlining these principles and the motivations behind them. Then, drawing on an analysis of the player interviews, we evaluate the impact of the game on their perception of the city.

Location-based games use smartphones and other location-aware devices to incorporate their players’ actions in everyday, physical spaces – the streets and public spaces of the city – into the virtual world of the game. Scholars and designers of these games often claim that they reconfigure their players’ relationship with the people and environment around them. They argue these games either engage and immerse players more deeply in the spaces of the game or distance and detach them from the physical environment through the screen interface. To date, however, relatively few detailed empirical studies of these games have been undertaken to test out and critique these claims. This article presents a study of the 2017 iteration of the location-based augmented reality game Wayfinder Live, in which players use their phones to search for and scan urban codes hidden across Melbourne’s laneways, alleys, and public spaces. Players of the game were interviewed and invited to reflect on their e...

People with Autism Spectrum Disorder and aphasia often have impairments that limit their ability to communicate verbally. Consequently, their daily activities, social interactions, and quality of life are affected. We have developed a customizable context-sensitive application, MarcoPolo, that can help these populations overcome challenges by providing vocabulary support both orally and visually. Initial evaluations of MarcoPolo have helped refine the application and have illustrated that contextsensitive mobile applications can support communication. Several additional studies will be run to further evaluate the efficacy of context-sensitive communication support. Two of these will start in 2011 and early results will be presented at FICCDAT.

Citizen Inquiry forms a new method of informal science learning and aims to enable the engagement of citizens in online scientific investigations. Citizen Inquiry combines aspects from Citizen Science and Inquiry-based learning and is implemented through a community of practice where people having a shared interest interact and exchange knowledge and methods supported and guided by online systems and tools within a web-based inquiry environment. To explore the potential of Citizen Inquiry, a series of design-based studies will be developed to help in understanding and improving the engagement of citizens in online scientific investigation. "Inquiring Rock Hunters" is the first designstudy of Citizen Inquiry, applied to Geology, and it explores the experience of participants with inquiries, other participants and tools.

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This chapter aims at exposing some theoretical and methodological premises about the study of urban semiotics and, subsequently, at identifying and analyzing the cultural areas in which urban play appear to rise more vigorously and to assume the most interesting forms. Firstly, we will focus on the city, approached as a complex "communicative machine" with inner workings similar to a text, and thus as a construct that can be read, written and rewritten. Also the phenomenon of digitalization will be approached thoroughly in its relationships with the city and, in particular, paying attention to its consequences and effects on the urban fabric and the ways the latter is experienced. The second part of this chapter, on the other hand, will be consecrated to playfulness, analyzing the cultural context of ludification and then focusing on the the ways in which play and games can be used to stimulate new readings, writings and enunciation of the urban territory. Many forms of play, as gamification, urban and pervasive games and location based games will be also approached in the light of their relationships with the city. Finally, the last paragraph will focus on the interactions that occurs between playfulness and digital constructs when related to urban realities. In particular, thorough the analysis of phenomena as Google street view photo-bombings and the creation of artificial, digital cities in video games, we will try to shed some light on the ways play can be used on the digital versions of the cities in order to affect real-life urban areas.

Musical theory about the structure and morphology of Western tonality is quite difficult to teach to young children, due to the relatively complex mathematical concepts behind tonality. Children usually grasp the concepts of musical harmony intuitively through listening to music examples. Placing the 12 notes of the well-tempered scale into a spatial arrangement, in which the proximity of these notes represents their mutual harmonic relationship, would allow to link physical motion through a spatial area with the ...

Mobile devices are gradually becoming ubiquitous and useful for personal information management and communication through different channels, such as instant messaging, social networking, or news feeds. This mobile revolution depends on two paradigms: firstly, the mobility of people and information, and secondly, the personalisation and contextualisation of information. This leads to new understandings of connectedness, interaction, participation, and context. In the field of distance education these paradigms ...

This chapter aims at exposing some theoretical and methodological premises about the study of urban semiotics and, subsequently, at identifying and analyzing the cultural areas in which urban play appear to rise more vigorously and to assume the most interesting forms. Firstly, we will focus on the city, approached as a complex "communicative machine" with inner workings similar to a text, and thus as a construct that can be read, written and rewritten. Also the phenomenon of digitalization will be approached thoroughly in its relationships with the city and, in particular, paying attention to its consequences and effects on the urban fabric and the ways the latter is experienced. The second part of this chapter, on the other hand, will be consecrated to playfulness, analyzing the cultural context of ludification and then focusing on the the ways in which play and games can be used to stimulate new readings, writings and enunciation of the urban territory. Many forms of play, as gamification, urban and pervasive games and location based games will be also approached in the light of their relationships with the city. Finally, the last paragraph will focus on the interactions that occurs between playfulness and digital constructs when related to urban realities. In particular, thorough the analysis of phenomena as Google street view photo-bombings and the creation of artificial, digital cities in video games, we will try to shed some light on the ways play can be used on the digital versions of the cities in order to affect real-life urban areas.

This chapter aims at exposing some theoretical and methodological premises about the study of urban semiotics and, subsequently, at identifying and analyzing the cultural areas in which urban play appear to rise more vigorously and to assume the most interesting forms. Firstly, we will focus on the city, approached as a complex "communicative machine" with inner workings similar to a text, and thus as a construct that can be read, written and rewritten. Also the phenomenon of digitalization will be approached thoroughly in its relationships with the city and, in particular, paying attention to its consequences and effects on the urban fabric and the ways the latter is experienced. The second part of this chapter, on the other hand, will be consecrated to playfulness, analyzing the cultural context of ludification and then focusing on the the ways in which play and games can be used to stimulate new readings, writings and enunciation of the urban territory. Many forms of play, as gamification, urban and pervasive games and location based games will be also approached in the light of their relationships with the city. Finally, the last paragraph will focus on the interactions that occurs between playfulness and digital constructs when related to urban realities. In particular, thorough the analysis of phenomena as Google street view photo-bombings and the creation of artificial, digital cities in video games, we will try to shed some light on the ways play can be used on the digital versions of the cities in order to affect real-life urban areas.

In this first STELLAR trend report we survey the more distant future of TEL, as reflected in the roadmaps; we compare the visions with trends in TEL research and TEL practice. This generic overview is complemented by a number of small-scale studies, which focus on a specific technology, approach or pedagogical model.

Mobile devices are gradually becoming ubiquitous and useful for personal information management and communication through different channels, such as instant messaging, social networking, or news feeds. This mobile revolution depends on two paradigms: firstly, the mobility of people and information, and secondly, the personalisation and contextualisation of information. This leads to new understandings of connectedness, interaction, participation, and context. In the field of distance education these paradigms ...

This final section of the report has been reproduced from ���D3. 1 The STELLAR Rendez-Vous I report and white papers���, published in 2009 by the STELLAR Network of Excellence. It is included here for completeness; we, as co-authors, felt that it was important to look back at the main contributions to theworkshop and also where the challenges lie for the future. This chapter addresses two critical questions:-What has been learned from this workshop, especially in respect to the STELLAR Grand Challenges (���Connecting learners���,��� ...

In a new era of digital media and democracy, there is widespread concern that technologies have incapacitated us from learning and teaching across diverse communities and perspectives. While this notion may ring true in certain contexts, this paper describes a study, “Mobile City Science,” that designed a novel learning experience in which educators and young people used mobile and place-based technologies to document and analyze the diverse perspectives of community members living in rapidly changing urban areas. The objective of this work was to teach young people digital literacies associated with “city science,” an emerging interdisciplinary field that creates data-driven approaches to complicated community issues. Participants were videotaped as they collected and analyzed information about a specific neighborhood using wearable cameras, GPS devices, heart rate monitors, and a GIS software. Early findings show that Mobile City Science uses technology to engage people with diver...

This paper presents a methodology approach for locative games studies using as reference the actor-network theory. The hypothesis supports that actor-network theory could be useful because it focuses on agencies between humans and non-humans; by the same way, it provides useful categories to support the researcher in the description of an emerging phenomenon. Locative gaming is a fruitful experience to use concepts from actor-network theory because it is connected to many humans and non-humans actants. In the attempt to achieve a research method for locative games using actor-network theory, this study provides a description of some game sessions of Pokémon GO played in Copenhagen during the summer of 2017.

This paper proposes a communication model that aims to describe and explain computer-mediated communication via locative media. The proposed model takes into account elements of theories of communication and media studies, Activity Theory, as well as Castells' concept of the space of flows and the ecological approach to visual perception.

Syren, a location-based, multi-speaker augmented audio reality installation was presented as a shipboard exhibit at the 12th International Symposium on Electronic Art in August 2004. It was conceived as a continuous 3-day spatial audio experience that augments the landscape through the Baltic archipelago with location-based audio media, spatialised through a 12channel speaker array. As the ship tracks between Helsinki, Mariehamn, Stockholm and Tallinn, listeners on the upper deck hear sounds that are perceived to originate from geographic features. Our custom GIS is derived from electronic nautical charting information that includes coastlines, buoys and beacons. A handheld GPS provides both position and direction data that was used by a software system to drive parameters of the spatial audio presentation. The sound production for the artwork was created using the custom application that enabled the artist to place sound media in relation to a real-world map. An important component to this software was the ability to audition the audio experience without ever taking the journey.

An argument is made against singular conceptions of learning and in favour of a more practice orientation that embraces 'acts of learning' and presents learning as mediated interaction. The present paper explores this through fieldwork in secondary school classrooms in which new digital technology is observed in its meditational role for the orchestration of such acts. Orchestration is identified in terms of how it brings about conditions of learning 'coherence'-whereby meaning is rendered more solid through the coordination of learning acts within individual lessons, along with the effective coordination of acts across episodes and sites of learning and, finally, the creating of a stronger community dimension to learning through linking together different stakeholders in the learning practice.

Mobile devices are gradually becoming ubiquitous and useful for personal information management and communication through different channels, such as instant messaging, social networking, or news feeds. This mobile revolution depends on two paradigms: firstly, the mobility of people and information, and secondly, the personalisation and contextualisation of information. This leads to new understandings of connectedness, interaction, participation, and context. In the field of distance education these paradigms ...

Working closely with the cinema to develop a locative or context-aware heritage application for the iPhone, the project aims to enhance the Curzon's new Heritage Lottery Funded exhibition, enabling visitors to gain further insight into the building, projection equipment and the history of cinema itself. The paper discusses the iterative design process, evaluates the first iteration and outlines plans for the next iteration, when the project will attempt to move seamlessly from the exterior of the building to inside the cinema. Mobile applications. Heritage interpretation. Screen heritage. Content development. Digital memories.

Audio-based mobile technology is opening up a range of new interactive possibilities. This paper brings some of those possibilities to light by offering a range of perspectives based in this area. It is not only the technical systems that are developing, but novel approaches to the design and understanding of audio-based mobile systems are evolving to offer new perspectives on interaction and design and support such systems to be applied in areas, such as the humanities.

Investigative journalism has its roots in the stunt and slumming journalism of the nineteenth century, a varied practice that meshes "undercover" passing, social justice, exposé and sensationalism. One recurring theme of this tradition has been the exploration of city spaces and the lives of disenfranchised urbanites who inhabit them. In 2006, The Globe and Mail, one of Canada's national English-language newspapers, allowed columnist Jan Wong to extend this tradition by going undercover, with her two children, as a (less than) minimum-wage housecleaner. The success of the series depends on the double entry of Jan Wong as a private domestic worker into her clients' homes and public journalist on the front page of the newspaper. Moving between low- income and middle-income homes, city and suburbs, Wong's discourse crisscrosses the physical, social and psychic spaces of labor, poverty and consumption in the contemporary metropolis. I argue these journalistic pr...

The daily newspaper in North America has long been a locally based medium that offers an opportunity for media geographers to explore concepts of place and locality. I explore how newspapers create a sense of place about the locality they serve. I review some of the major geographic theories of place and the local and also the work of communications scholars on how newspapers construct reality in their pages. I apply these ideas to the notion that newspapers construct a sense of place using both the form and the ...

This paper provides an overview of the 3D-COFORM project which began in December 2008 and aims to advance the state-of-the-art in 3D-digitsation and make 3D-documentation an everyday practical choice for digital documentation campaigns in the cultural heritage sector.

Conventional education in applied science relies on both theoretical studies and hands-onexperiments while virtual education conveys theoretical information via enhanced visual aid. Visual information can be provided via dynamic web sites broadcasting from both existing laboratories and visual tours of imaginary collections. An example for the fast growing e-museum projects has been proposed and the data warehouse model has been recommended to save the information in the presented example. The linking model is employed for the presentation of objects. The model is able to use an auditing classification between content finding and data fields. The free-of-charge web application has been used to track the visitor activities. Although, both proposed project and its model have been used for creating an e-museum, it can easily be adopted to any learning environment which provides visual educational support to any science.

New media technologies related with location (GPS, wireless networks, etc.) are becoming an interesting interface to explore the relationship between objects and space. Emerging art practices coined with the term 'locative media' engage precisely with such technologies and bring to light some debate on the conception of materiality and space, thus fostering new ways of space exploration and experience. This paper aims to contribute to the theorization of locative media through bridging different humanistic perspectives that include: new media, contemporary art, and social science theories. The main subjects of discussion are, on the one hand, the notions of objectuality and materiality, and on the other, the notions of space and place. I will relate such theories with locative media art projects, ending with the case studies of Canal Accessible (2006) and Bio Mapping (2004), and suggesting that locative media could aid in the social transformation of space.

Background/Context This concluding article identifies the policy implications of education informatics and explores impacts of current copyright laws, legislative structures, publishing practices, and education organizations. Synthesizing the discussions in the preceding articles, this article highlights the importance of designing information systems to promote open access to information in order to support scholarly communications and provide for the application of scholarship to practice within the field of education. Specific steps are proposed to further advance education informatics and to anchor it within constantly changing technologies in order to address pedagogical, curricular, and policy issues within education. Purpose This article is designed to propose future directions for the development of the field of education informatics and promote additional research. Research Design Information in this article is based on a brief literature review and an analysis of the inter...

Abstract. This article describes the results of a case study conducted amongst 21 doctoral candidates and three senior researchers at the Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning 2010. The study aims to analyse the needs of early career researchers working within the field of TEL in geographically distant communities, particularly with respect to online collaboration, communication and information exchange. This study can be seen as a needs analysis on support structures to enable research 2.0 in TEL among young researchers.

We describe the building and testing of a museum audio tour with content recorded as spontaneous interactive dialogue between two curators as they walked around an art gallery. The aim was to produce a guide which would increase the amount of topically relevant talk shared by people visiting a museum in groups of two or more. Conversation analysis is used to show how a pair of visitors engaged more with the content of the guide than they would have with audio produced as traditional scripted monologue. Examples of a variety of engagement types are detailed and a supporting rationale drawing on Goffman's theory of 'footing' is discussed. The approach potentially offers a low cost way for organisations involved in informal learning to produce flexible in-house audio content for mobile and e-learning, which improves visitor engagement both with the content and with one another, and leads to a more enjoyable visitor/learner experience than traditional forms of audio.

This paper proposes a communication model that aims to describe and explain computer-mediated communication via locative media. The proposed model takes into account elements of theories of communication and media studies, Activity Theory, as well as Castells' concept of the space of flows and the ecological approach to visual perception.

This paper proposes a communication model that aims to describe and explain computer-mediated communication via locative media. The proposed model takes into account elements of theories of communication and media studies, Activity Theory, as well as Castells' concept of the space of flows and the ecological approach to visual perception.

Musical theory about the structure and morphology of Western tonality is quite difficult to teach to young children, due to the relatively complex mathematical concepts behind tonality. Children usually grasp the concepts of musical harmony intuitively through listening to music examples. Placing the 12 notes of the well-tempered scale into a spatial arrangement, in which the proximity of these notes represents their mutual harmonic relationship, would allow to link physical motion through a spatial area with the exploration of music tonality. Music theorists have postulated the Circle of Fifth, the “Spiral Array”, and the “Tonnetz” as paradigms for spatial arrangements of music notes which allow mapping the distance between notes onto their “mutual consonance”. These approaches mostly have been of qualitative nature, leaving the actual numeric parameters of the spatial description undetermined. In this paper, these parameters have been determined, leading to a concrete numerical de...

A new kind of social space is created out of the transmission and reception of data between mobile phone users. A private communicational space arising from the city’s striated space, a social space born out of a new telecommunications technology. This virtual but real communicational space can be thought as a subversive space, a decentralised network where users generate and exchange their own data, taking pictures, making phone calls, accessing the Net. This paper is exploring the creation and appropriation of this space by its users and investigates broadcasting models where people are be able to send their text and other multi-media elements and display them onto designated local public screens.

This session describes the educational advantages of and the practical issues in creating a virtual or E-media fieldtrip. The linkages between this educational tool and its further use in heritage management and tourism planning are also explored. Field trips and site visits are essential components of many academic programmes. These types of activity are incorporated into courses to enable students to experience a location and to encourage a better understanding of an area by observing its characteristics. They are also mechanisms for introducing fieldwork methods and techniques. This teaching method, used in both secondary and tertiary sectors, is well established. It produces positive educational outcomes and is difficult to substitute any other conventional teaching methods to achieve similar results. The choice of location, however, is often an educational compromise, controlled by many factors such as; travel time, cost, amount of suitable accommodation, and effects upon the s...

The daily newspaper in North America has long been a locally based medium that offers an opportunity for media geographers to explore concepts of place and locality. I explore how newspapers create a sense of place about the locality they serve. I review some of the major geographic theories of place and the local and also the work of communications scholars on how newspapers construct reality in their pages. I apply these ideas to the notion that newspapers construct a sense of place using both the form and the ...

This final section of the report has been reproduced from ���D3. 1 The STELLAR Rendez-Vous I report and white papers���, published in 2009 by the STELLAR Network of Excellence. It is included here for completeness; we, as co-authors, felt that it was important to look back at the main contributions to theworkshop and also where the challenges lie for the future. This chapter addresses two critical questions:-What has been learned from this workshop, especially in respect to the STELLAR Grand Challenges (���Connecting learners���,��� ...

Mobile devices are gradually becoming ubiquitous and useful for personal information management and communication through different channels, such as instant messaging, social networking, or news feeds. This mobile revolution depends on two paradigms: firstly, the mobility of people and information, and secondly, the personalisation and contextualisation of information. This leads to new understandings of connectedness, interaction, participation, and context. In the field of distance education these paradigms ...