Collaborative GPS Visualisation App

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Feb 222011
 

Comob is a digital arts project that explores the potential for collaborative mapping with GPS technology. Comob was developed as a research tool to explore social and spatial relationships between people in motion.

comobhand Collaborative GPS Visualisation App

'The relationships between people and spaces elicits a variety of responses, including intimacy, irritation, and exhilaration. We are interested in an awareness of where other people are and how that affects our experience of place. This workshop will look at how those relationships can be mapped, as live and moving visualisations'

Comob is an application developed for iPhones that explores collaborative mapping with GPS technology. The software allows members of a shared group to see each other’s position and movements in real time on their mobile phones.

You can download a free iPhone app ‘Comob net’ from the app store with more information on the project available at http://www.theportable.tv/contemporarycartographies. Wheres the Android app?

http://www.comob.org.uk/

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Universal Translator

 3g, collaborative, communication, computer mediated, generator, global, gps, gsm, interactive, language, meaning, Mobile, Narrative, sound, voice  No Responses »
Oct 152010
 

Can you picture it! Well google are probably well on their way developing it, but I want to share more doodles and ideas on this blog more.

universal translator

Won't it be brilliant to use this as an app on your phone, or automatically detect a langauge from a sender then automatically translate it to the language you understand in their reciever. It cant be far away from development.

There is voice to text search app from google on my android htc, i'm sure there is text to voice that I hear students playing with on the mac with it. I can appreciate it probably takes a lot of servers to manage with the global population wanting to converse and communicate in their own lanaguage to other businessmen.

If you take the shannon and weaver communication model diagram of 1949 was... the noise in the middle would be the server translating and detecting idioms (uk an example would be: dog and bone, or up north: put wood in 'oil) and dialects.

Example:

English Voice to English text - server translate text (like at this site on toolbar) - Japanese Text to Japanese Voice

I admit the text to voice convertor might be limited in its translation of tone of the message from intonation of speech and inflection that comes from the rubato of spoken word. Maybe in time it can measure the pace, the raise in volume, the length of pauses, irony, but for now the nearest we can get to word for word meaning would be excellent.

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