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• UW CSE 590GB Projects - Winter 2004

Privacy Control for Location-Enhanced IM - Justin Goshi and Evan Welbourne A central obstacle for privacy-observant location systems remains in the difficulty of getting users to fluently understand and precisely control their privacy settings. In this project, we explore potential strategies for overcoming this problem in the context of a specific application: a location-enhanced instant messenger (IM).
Indoor Location Estimation with Placelab - Harlan Hile and Alan Liu Our project investigated increasing Placelab's accuracy in determining indoor location, using wi-fi access point measurements. This would allow building-scale applications to be built that could use this increased accuracy.
Location-Aware ToDo Application - Jeff Hughes and Jonathan Ko Many To-Do list applications have been developed for PDAs with only temporal awareness, but many items that user might put on their To-Do list are more location sensitive than time sensitive. An example is stopping by the nearest grocery store on the way home.
Place Extractor: Translating Coordinates into Places - Jong Hee Kang and Ben Stewart The Placelab framework generates geometric positions in terms of longitude and latitude coordinates. However, many applications require a more symbolic notion of locations, as suggested by Hightower et. al. in [2]. Our project is to build an abstraction layer that provides a more symbolic notion of locations from the coordinates generated by the Placelab framework.



• UW CSE 477: Design Capstone Projects - Spring 2004
  
  
• Active Campus

The ActiveCampus project aims to provide location-based services for educational networks and understand how such systems are used. Key Contact: William G. Griswold [wgg@cs.ucsd.edu]

• Topiary

  Topiary is a tool for prototyping location-enhanced applications that allows designers to quickly design, prototype, and test a location-enhanced application without requiring them to implement the application or deploy a supporting infrastructure, enabling them to get early feedback about their design from real end users. Key Contact: Yang Li [yangli@eecs.berkeley.edu]

  
  
• Kelvin Institute and the Edinburgh Festival

  The Kelvin Institute is using the Edinburgh arts festival as a testbed and a showcase for new ubicomp developments. Place Lab is one of the new technologies they are testing in the first year of this three year project. Key Contact: Matthew Chalmers [matthew@dcs.gla.ac.uk]

  
  
• Hermes

  The Hermes project is developing a software framework for mobile, context-aware trails applications. Key Contact: Siobhán Clarke [Siobhan.Clarke@cs.tcd.ie]

  
  
• CatchBob!

  CatchBob! is an experimental platform in the form of a mobile game for running psychological experiments. It is designed to elicit collaborative behavior of people working together on a mobile activity. Running on a mobile device (iPAQ, TabletPC), it's a collaborative hunt in which groups of three persons have to find and circle a virtual object on our campus. Key Contact: Fabien Girardin [Fabien.Girardin@epfl.ch]

  
  
• CAM

  CAM is a paper-based programming toolkit for camera-equipped mobile phones. It is intended to automate inefficient paper-based processes in the developing world. It supports the addition of interactivity and dynamic content to ordinary paper forms, and links forms with online information services. It is currently being tested and used in several locations in rural India. Key Contact: Tapan S. Parikh

  
  
• Locky.jp

  Locky is a Japanese clone of Place Lab, offering its own WiFi beacon database for Japan.

  
  
• JavaWPS

  The Java WLAN-Positioning System (JavaWPS) ist a desktop tool for capturing the position of a laptop. It is simple and can operate not only in the german speaking area (the GUI is english). It's a protoype of a "software GPS" for studying hybrid positioning techniques. Its basic function is to place the coordinates into the paste buffer based on (URL-)formatting templates. A typical template is the geo tag which is described in the georeferencing Wikipedia articles. Key Contact: Stefan F. Keller [sfk1@gmx.net]