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Presentations: Where Fair

Annotated Reality/ Real Space in Virtual Time - Art Installation
Ian Pollock (UC Santa Cruz)
Using bluetooth server software i would like to invigorate the location of the conference by creating a electronic media work which draws on the historical and current significance of the site.
Demo - GeoTemporal Reasoning in a Web 3.0 World
Jans Aasman (Franz Inc.)
We demo a Web 3.0 application that organizes social events for friends in the Bay Area using a collection of techniques that will be at the heart of Web 3.0 applications. Entity extraction, querying federated databases, efficient spatial reasoning, temporal reasoning, practical RDFS++ reasoning, reasoning over preferences, social network analytics, activity planning and activity recognition.
Guiding Users (No GPS Required!)
Rajiv Aggarwal (CellGuided)
How do you create a location based application without GPS? This session delves into an application that is doing just that. Come hear how design and implementation choices can lead to rich applications that only require the simplest of mobile phones.
Healthy City California Demo
Lori Thompson (Advancement Project), Christine Schweidler (The Advancement Project), Young Kim (Healthy City)
The Healthy City Project's (HC) open access GIS web-based platform improves the accessibility of services to low-income, underserved families. HC allows users to add their own data to an extensive resource base on www.healthycity.org. HC works to ensure sensible public policies that are based on sound data and will improve the quality of life for all communities throughout California.
Joker Racer - A Wifi Control Car with GPS
Yosuke Akamatsu (sidefeed, Inc.)
We are developping a linux-hearted radio (wifi) control car. This car is equipped with web server, web cam and GPS. You can drive this car from anywhere in the world by your browser.
Location Amplifier: A New Interaction Framework that Bridges the Real and Virtual Worlds
Atsushi Shionozaki (Koozyt, Inc.), Koshiro Mitsuya (Koozyt, Inc.)
Location Amplifier is a framework that enhances your experience of a place, seamlessly bridging your real-world context with the networked world. Traditional location based techniques such as those used in way-finding and guides will be enhanced to allow users to interact with the environment, guiding them to treasures, coupons, and even trivia on Japanese folklore spirits and creatures.
MarineMap: Crowdsourcing Scientifically Defensible Marine Habitat Protection Areas
Dennis Wuthrich (Farallon Geographics), Matt Merrifield (The Nature Conservancy)
Protecting the diversity of California’s marine habitats is a pressing concern. We’ve developed a web application that lets citizens define and share Marine Protected Areas. Built with traditional and Open Source geospatial technologies, “MarineMap” users create protected area maps that meet science-based guidelines for inclusion in legislation that specifies and protects marine environments.
Snapture
Mohsin Ali (Carbon Imagineering)
Turning your iPhone into a pocket, photographic time machine! Snapture enables iPhone users to explore historical photo archives of your location. As well as the iPhone app, the project includes a 'backoffice' to crowdsource the geotagging of a historical photo archive, using volunteers recruited via Mechanical Turk. Snapture is a collaboration between Leeds Met Uni and the Leodis photo archive.
Tactile Navigation Belt
John Zelek (University of Waterloo)
Tactile Sight Inc., a University of Waterloo spinoff company, provides sensory substitution systems that map location and object sensing technologies & per- cepts into haptics (touch)
The Burning Man Earth Project... Decoding the Desert
Tom Longson (The OpenView Project)
Burning Man Earth is a group project aimed at acquiring, disseminating and documenting Burning Man event information. BME will attempt to archive the event "in amber" employing a banquet of various geo- tagged media and information, from maps, photos and video, to exotics such as gigapan, GPS tracks, 3D models, hi-res aerial photography and even soundscapes.
Visualizing the Foreclosure Crisis
Tom Link (Universal Mind, Inc.), Nebahat Noyan (Social Compact)
Advances in web technologies and user interface design have provided Social Compact - a nonprofit helping the City of Detroit tackle the foreclosure crisis - with an opportunity to dramatically increase the value and reach of their research. These new tools break down information barriers to facilitate coordinated and effective decision making among investors, government and communities.