Thanks Clayton, that's pretty interesting. I hadn't considered the possibilities that a "live" inverse RFID system might offer. That is, one exploiting a "round the back" (cookies, etc.) connection to the web device held by the tag wearer.
Quoting Clayton H Lewis <[email protected]>: > having belatedly looked at the page on in-museum services, I want to > promote the "inverse" RFId approach that's mentioned within the RFId > section... the idea being that visitors, not stuff in the museum, > get tagged > > seems as if this has powerful advantages with respect to all of the > alternatives besides image recognition > > in particular, visitors don't have to be assumed to bring any device, > to get some benefit (eg a map of their visit for access later) > > if the visitor does have a device, it only has to have web access to > deliver useful stuff, if one arranges a match up of visitor's device > to visitor's tag (a possible scenario: on the way into the museum, > wearing your rfid tag, you pass through an entry big enough only for > you... on your phone you go to a website that knows which tag is in > the entry at that moment, and your phone thereby picks up what your > tag is... thereafter the website content is targeted to you based on > the location of your tag) > > seems to me all of the alternatives, including image recognition, > make considerably heavier tech demands on what visitors have to have > > Clayton Lewis > Professor of Computer Science > Scientist in Residence, Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities > University of Colorado > http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~clayton > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
