Reading the cloudMaking sense of location based data
Chris MarmoPhD Candidate, RMIT University
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Today...
• Parks Victoria project intro
• How can we use location based data?
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Geoknowledge Project
How can Parks Victoria better utilise the knowledge it and its staff have?
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Geoknowledge Project
Valuable, park specific knowledge, obtained through years of experience, is inaccessible.
Reading the cloud - Chris Marmo
Geoknowledge Project
Valuable, park specific knowledge, obtained through years of experience, is inaccessible.
How can we share that knowledge?
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Geoknowledge Project
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Geoknowledge Project
Knowledge
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Geoknowledge Project
Knowledge People
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Geoknowledge Project
Knowledge People
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Geo-tagged data is everywhere
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invisible citiesinvisible cities
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Information needs to be interpreted to be useful
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“Knowledge is a consensus of interpretation”
Burke, 2000
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?
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Augmented reality(amongst other things)(amongst other things)
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Our idea
Allow people to generate knowledge in the places that knowledge is about.
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Overlaying v Revealing
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Factual v Social
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AR gives us context
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Context can be confusing
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Place vs SpaceHarrison & Dourish (1996)
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Space is raw location - the GPS coordinate
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Place arises through social interaction with space
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“Knowledge is... the dynamic by-product of unique relationships between an individual and
the environment.”
Jeong-Im Choion situated cognition
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Studying interactions with space
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Visualize data in-situ
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To allow...
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...social knowledge creation!
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So...
• AR can help us make sense of information in-situ
• Context is more than location
• Design for place
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Thanks!
@kurisu
www.prosimian.com.au