I implemented a zoom and simple message vizualisation for ShoutSpace. A .mov (2.4MB) features it.

Rune’s wishful thinking on the wide usage of a PMA 400 in his university and the link to the iPod at Duke project page provide some examples of scenarios for ShoutSpace.

People at the Fribourg School of Engineering showed my their first implemantion of ShoutSpace on their campus. They are moving forward with some sort 3D indoor positioning system. Via Breeze and ShoutSpace, I could follow them walking around their CS building. We used Skype for oral communication.

And a 1 minutes .mov video (2.5MB).

ShoutSpace now has its own project page.

The first version of ShoutSpace on laptop.

ActiveCampus is a ShoutSpace and WiTeach like system. It aims to provide location-based services for educational networks and understand how such systems are used. activeclass enables collaboration between students and professors by serving as a visual moderator for classroom interaction. ActiveCampus Explorer uses a person’s context, like location, to help engage them in campus life. It uses Place Lab as localization system.

More on:
ActiveCampus: explorations in community-oriented ubiquitous computing

My small presentation on the WiFi location-based applications developed the CRAFT is in ppt. It includes an architectural view of the systems.

A very early version of ShoutSpace is running. It relies on a .NET Compat Framework C# client, the CraftStumbler (CraftDeamon) dll and classes for the WiFi localization, SOAP for the client(.NET)/server(Axis) communication and Hibernate to take care of the persistence in the backend.
Current features:
- Localizing people (figure 1)
- View/Post shout messages (figure 2)

Posters for the EPFL I&C Research Day 2004 are available in the CRAFT Research Booklet. CatchBob!, BILL, and ShoutSpace are featured.

Developments of location awarness softwares for iPAQs are well on their way at CRAFT. I wrote (learning by doing) a simple C# client application that allows to map my own location as well as the one of my mates in real time.

On this snapshot of my iPAQ screen, I (in red) am at the INF cafeteria taking a coffee, Guillermo (in yellow) doing his diploma work in the INN building and Patrick (orange) and Nicolas (blue) are both working at the CRAFT (CE building).