[gps-talkusers] wayfinding presentation webcast May 25 from Toronto

  • From: Michael May <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "GPS-talkusers-freelists.org" <GPS-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:15:05 -0700

I will be presenting in Toronto a week from tomorrow, May 25, at Frontier 
Computing. If you can't be there in person, please join the interactive webcast 
at 10 AM to Noon Eastern time, no charge. Just go to:
http://www.senderogroup.com/chat.htm 
and follow the instructions on that page to join the session. 

Hope you can join us.
Mike 

>        The following is an agenda of potential topics to be covered during 
> Mike May's presentation, Current and Future Wayfinding Technologies. 

>Overview of GPS for beginners including travel stories and strengths and 
>weaknesses.

Showing of a summary GPS video. .

>Sendero GPS version 3.5: new features

>New highly sensitive GPS receivers.
>
>Other accessible GPS products:
>Pros and cons of the Trekker and StreetTalk as well as the commercially 
>available Wayfinder, Navigon and Telenav cell phone GPS products.
>
>Wayfinding Research:
>Discussion of the collaborative project by Sendero and its five partner 
>organizations including testing of the efficiency of using GPS versus without 
>GPS, spatial presentation of information and verbal language announcements; 
>mental imaging and cognitive load.
>
>Emerging Wayfinding technologies:
>More about accessible GPS on cell phones.
>Indoor positioning technologies such as dead reckoning, Talking Lights, WiFi, 
>Bluetooth, cell phone signals, television signals, reflective barcode tags, 
>RFID-passive and active, , Navizon.



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