Talking Points is a GROCS funded collaborative project whose aim is develop a prototype urban orientation and contextual information system. By using a mobile computer to read Bluetooth tags positioned around a city, such as Ann Arbor, user generated location information is presented to the user via either an audio or visual modular interface. Information about each location on which the tag placed is stored in an online database. This information is retrieved by the cellular data connected mobile device when the user comes within close proximity to a “Talking Point.” The information for each Talking Point is maintained by the Talking Points community; anyone can add, modify, or delete information for each Talking Point.
For more information about the project you can download a short project presentation in PDF format.
Posted April 23rd, 2008
Today Talking-Points was covered in an article by the local news website concentrate. The article talks about our project and how it “is one of many ambitious student-led projects at the University’s unique School of Information“. Go check it out!
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Posted April 17th, 2008
The semester getting to an end and we are preparing to present the work that we put into Talking-Points throughout the semester at tomorrow’s GROCS Open Houseful. We are very pleased with what we accomplished and proud to be able to present a working prototype at the event tomorrow. Please come and see it for […]
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Posted April 7th, 2008
It has already been a couple of days but we wanted to say that our presentation at the expoSItion (see last post) was a great success. Talking-Points honorably mentioned as one out of four from the 27 student projects. You can read about it here.
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Posted March 18th, 2008
Talking-Points presented at the School of Information expoSItion on Monday, March 17th. The exposition occurred immediately after the SI Job Fair, so employers at the Fair came by to check out all the projects being displayed. We received a flood of positive response on our demonstration at the exposition from employers, students, faculty […]
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Posted March 13th, 2008
Hello everybody,
we will be presenting our Talking-Points project at the School of Informatio’s expoSItion next Monday (March 17) from 12:00-2:00pm. The expoSItion is an annual event where Master students from the School of Information can present the projects that they are working on. There will faculty and potential employers present and projects can win cash […]
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Posted March 13th, 2008
This is a short post about what we expect the results of our project are going to be after the end of the semester. This final deliverable is called “the Wrap” within the GROCS community. We can’t really say for sure what exactly is going to be in it, but it is definitely going to […]
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Posted March 4th, 2008
After all our initial research we finally started working on the implementation of the Talking-Points client. We got three motivated developers (Josh Rychlinski, Travis Donggun Yoo and Peter Kretschman) working on it and hop to be able to present first results very soon. The plan for our project prototype is to develop the client […]
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Posted February 9th, 2008
We had a very productive GROCS design review yesterday. We got a ton of very valuable feedback what people (in this case only sighted people) would like to get from the Talking-Points system. These are most of the things mentioned:
I would like the system not to be so consumer oriented. I don’t want to buy […]
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Posted February 8th, 2008
Last week we conducted a “Wizard of Oz study” for our Talking-Points design. This is “an experiment in which subjects interact with a computer system that subjects believe to be autonomous, but which is actually being operated or partially operated by an unseen human being.” [Wikipedia]
Method
We equipped two test participants with a cellphone with headset […]
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Posted January 18th, 2008
This is a first try of a diagram for the social database that is going to store all the location data for the Talking-Points project. The database has two main goals:
1) make it as easy, accessible and usable as possible to contribute to the database
2) provide relevant and reliable information for each location
The format of […]
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