Archive for May 3rd, 2006

BlueWay Presentation

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Here’s a copy of all of our BlueWay final presentation materials from Interaction Design class:

  1. Experience Brief Presentation including three different map options
  2. Kiosk in Flash
  3. Processing code in progress for BlueWay display

Both the kiosk and the display will undergo significant changes before the show. Kiosk steps will be reduced to fewer screens, while improving user control of the process. Display behaviors will change to better link to different dimensions of information. Literal and abstract mapping features will be created. There will of course be a general reduction in unmotivated activity so that movement is linked only to significant events. We look forward to receiving a wide variety of useful feedback during the show, and this will be folded into the following iteration of BlueWay.

BlueWay System Diagram

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Above is a system diagram for BlueWay, the Bluetooth presence detection system that we are building for the ITP Spring Show. There will be a total of six sensor modules which pass Bluetooth discovery information generated by a BlueSMiRF radio to an ZigBee mesh networking radio. All the remote ZigBee radios connect to one on a central base station, which passes all of their information via a secure TCP/IP Internet connection to a display system. The display system runs in Java, and connects to a database of the people’s names and pictures that are linked to their Bluetooth ID. These names and pictures are shown on a central display. Looking for someone? Check BlueWay to see where they are!