Past Screenings + Seminars:
Place as Interface: Putting Wireless and Mobile Computing in Context
Wednesday, April 11, 2001, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street,
First-Floor Recital Hall
Tickets: $12/$8 Museum members
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The promise of mobile computing extends beyond the
portability of information. Mobile computing offers its greatest promise
in the ability both to bring information into, and to aquire information
from physical environments and the objects within them. Mobile and wireless
applications being created today for public, industrial, and research
environments use this "context awareness" to bring online and
physical realms closer together.
Robert Fabricant, Director of Research and Development, Organic,
Inc., will present eDocent™, a mobile museum information system designed
in collaboration with the Museum of the Moving Image, and utilize
it as a case study to discuss interaction design for digitally activated
physical environments.
Vincent Luciano, Vice President, Mobile Computing Systems, Symbol
Technologies, will discuss some of his company's large-scale
industrial applications for factories, hospitals, and retail environments
which merge mobile devices with specific environments. Recent products
from Symbol include finger-mounted scanners and vehicle radio computers.
Casey McCarthy, Mobility Evangelist, Microsoft
Corp., will provide an overview of key emerging, converging, and sometimes
conflicting technologies enabling the wireless computing revolution, and
will provide real-world scenarios for their use. In addition, he will
show upcoming software and devices embodying these technologies.
Tobias Höllerer, Department of Computer
Science, Columbia University, will discuss their Situated
Documentaries project. Their experimental wearable augmented reality
system enables users to experience hypermedia presentations that are integrated
with the actual outdoor locations to which they are are relevant.
A reception sponsored by the Microsoft Mobility Division
will follow the event.
Seating is limited. Tickets may be purchased in advance by calling 718-784-4520
during business hours.
The Pinewood Digital Dialogue is presented in cooperation with the Continuing
Education & Public Programs and The
New Media Lab at The
Graduate Center, CUNY.
About eDocent™
eDocent™ is a prototype wireless
information system developed by the Museum of the Moving Image
in partnership with the Internet services company Organic, Inc. Using
eDocent™, a visitor may browse multimedia information about an
object on a wireless device, such as a tablet computer or PDA. The information
is presented automatically based on the visitor's proximity to the object.
Visitors may also bookmark objects for later exploration on the Web. The
design of eDocent™ anticipates a world in which a museum visitor's
own portable computing devices, including mobile phones, PDAs, and eBooks,
are the primary platform for browsing and sharing information in public
spaces.
Prototype development is supported, in part, with public funds from the
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Challenge Program.
Major support has also been provided by The William Fox, Jr. Foundation
and Citigroup.
Additional Information
Organic,
Inc.
Columbia
University, Situated Documentaries Project
Symbol Technologies
Microsoft
Mobility Division
CUNY
Graduate Center
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