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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.