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About GeoTracing is a software platform for creating multimedial geo-applications. These applications have in common that they allow you to tell your multimedial story about your movement through the landscape, whether on foot, skates, by bike or other means. View for example the TraceLand application. You can there sign up and download the MobiTracer mobile client.

Features record GPS tracklogs remotely from mobile phone create GPS tracklogs remotely by (GPX) upload submit and relate media (audio/video/images/text) to points in GPS tracklogs annotate tracklogs with route parameters (e.g asphalt rating, sceneray rating) create overlayed maps by combining tracklogs live/real-time tracing in browser view and play back tracks in browser Location Based Services (LBS) through trigger on geotagged objects (e.g. media) portal functions: personal tracklogs and media tagging: give tags to any items (tracks, media persons) commenting: provide comments on any item (tracks, media persons) extensibility: server-side plug-ins open/XML-based protocols: create clients in any technology

Sound Mapping is a participatory work of sound art made for outdoor environments. The work is installed in the environment by means of a Global Positioning System (GPS), which tracks movement of individuals through the space. Participants wheel four movement-sensitive, sound producing suitcases to realise a composition that spans space as well as time. The suitcases play music in response to nearby architectural features and the movements of individuals. Sound Mapping aims to assert a sense of place, physicality and engagement to reaffirm the relationship between art and the everyday.

El objetivo del proyecto es generar un sistema que permita al usuario planificar una visita turística en una zona rural concreta ofreciendo las siguientes posibilidades: Impresión en papel de guías turísticas a medida. Descarga de información personalizada para ser visualizada mediante dispositivos móviles, tipo PDA, con o sin GPS (guías digitales, mapas georreferenciados, waypoints, rutas y tracks).

We are hard at work creating our new MP3 GPS activated player. If you can imagine an automated tour guide that knows exactly where you are and can play audio tracks relating to the locations you are near. Add to that a real time clock and when the user is near restaurants at lunch time you can offer them specials at participating locations.

Both groups had the classic problem of notification -- getting a user to tune in requires interrupting their current activity, not something users have been known to relish. Billions were spent on Web School applications that assumed users would bookmark for a return visit, or would happily accept email alerts, but despite a few well-publicized successes like Schwab.com and eBay, users have mostly refused to "check back often."

We constantly rely on the cognitive capabilities of individuals in software design -- we assume a user can associate the mouse with the cursor, or that icons will be informative. We rarely rely on the cognitive capabilities of groups, however, though we rely on those capabilities in the real world all the time.

The suggestion about general web accessibility for the CoDeck interface came in the form of a rhetorical question -- "Why not make it as broadly accessible as possible?" In the Web School, of course, the answer is "No reason", since more users are always A Good Thing, but for CoDeck there were several good reasons for not simply turning their project into a Web video app. First, the physicalization of the interface, using the gutted BetaMax deck, provides a communal affordance that it is impossible to replicate over the web. Second, since CoDeck serves a tight community, the density of communication among ITP video makers would be diluted by general accessibility. Third, having the video deck in the lounge makes it self-policing; the cohesion of the community keeps it largely free from abuse, whereas a generally accessible and password-free "upload and critique" video site would become a cesspool of porn within hours. Finally, serving a local community maximizes use of free bandwidth on the local network, enabling features that would saddle a public system with crippling costs.