Dear All, I am looking for participants on this trial that is open internationally, and that I am organising in the context of my PhD research. The description follows. Thanks
Mauro ----------------------------------------------------------------- Share your experience of the city What is it? This is an academic research project of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. STAMPS is a little application that allows you to leave notes on a map using your mobile phone. You can see a map of the place where you are, visualised on the screen of your mobile. There, you can write a kind of SMS and attach it to the map so that other friends can see your message appearing on their map. You can write for instance: this is my favorite pizzeria!, to offer advice to your buddies. All the messages left in the system say something about the city where you live: what are the sport locations, the place to eat, the meeting spots. After a while, we want to use all these information to help the users to navigate the city. You can ask the system, for instance: where is a pizzeria nearby?, and the system will search for other peoples messages which refer to the term pizzeria to give you an advice. What are we looking for? We are looking for a group of activists, friends, who like to walk the city and annotate the spots they like the most, the places they hate. If you want to participate in this trial you need to be passionate about your city, informed on the activities running in the surroundings and ready to share this information with your friends. We expect from you to participate intensively for the next few months leaving notes of your activities in the urban area. What is it for you? If you will be selected for the first trial all the connection costs that you will have to use the system will be reimbursed. If your telephone is not compatible with our software, we will give you a new one for the period of the trial. The most creative and active participants will be awarded with a monetary prize. How can I apply for participating? Please send an email to shoutspace[at]gmail.com with your coordinates, your telephone model and your operator. If you apply with your friends you will have more chances to be selected. Please add the coordinates of your friends to the message. More information http://www.i-cherubini.it/mauro/blog/2006/03/16/stamps-field-trial/ http://craftsrv1.epfl.ch/research/stamps/ _______________ Mauro Cherubini Research Associate Centre de Recherche et d'Appui pour la Formation et ses Technologies (CRAFT) / Center for Research and Support of Training and its Technologies Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) / Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Address: CE 1.631 (Bâtiment CE), Station 1, EPFL - Ecublens, CH - 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Téléphone: +41 (0)21/693.27.05 -- Fax: +41 (0)21/693.60.70 -- Mobile: +41 (0)78/ 913.50.11 web: http://craft.epfl.ch -- blog: http://www.i-cherubini.it/mauro/blog/ _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
