reading the cloud: making sense of location based data

Reading the cloudMaking sense of location based data

Chris MarmoPhD Candidate, RMIT University

Reading the cloud - Chris Marmo

Today...

• Parks Victoria project intro

• How can we use location based data?


Geoknowledge Project

How can Parks Victoria better utilise the knowledge it and its staff have?



Valuable, park specific knowledge, obtained through years of experience, is inaccessible.



Valuable, park specific knowledge, obtained through years of experience, is inaccessible.

How can we share that knowledge?



Knowledge



Knowledge People


Geo-tagged data is everywhere


invisible citiesinvisible cities


Information needs to be interpreted to be useful


“Knowledge is a consensus of interpretation”

Burke, 2000


?


Augmented reality(amongst other things)(amongst other things)


Our idea

Allow people to generate knowledge in the places that knowledge is about.


Overlaying v Revealing


Factual v Social


AR gives us context


Context can be confusing


Place vs SpaceHarrison & Dourish (1996)


Space is raw location - the GPS coordinate


Place arises through social interaction with space


“Knowledge is... the dynamic by-product of unique relationships between an individual and

the environment.”

Jeong-Im Choion situated cognition


Studying interactions with space


Visualize data in-situ


To allow...


...social knowledge creation!


So...

• AR can help us make sense of information in-situ

• Context is more than location

• Design for place


Thanks!

@kurisu

www.prosimian.com.au

http://www.prosimian.com.au/

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