Proboscis's successful field trial of a public authoring feral robot, carried out on 3rd February in London Fields, used GPS and wifi to upload its geo-referenced readings to the project's platform...
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<p><b>Proboscis has announced the successful field trial,
carried out on Friday 3rd February in London Fields, of a public
authoring feral robot...<br />
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The project began as an EPSRC-supported Visiting Fellowship with
Natalie Jeremijenko and has developed into a close collaboration
with Birkbeck College's Department of Computer Science. It
is part of Proboscis' Social Tapestries research programme:
<a href="http://socialtapestries.net/"
target="blank">http://socialtapestries.net</a><br />
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<b>Gathered data combined with local knowledge uploaded by
locals</b><br />
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The robot combines air quality and carbon dioxide sensor and a
GPS unit with WiFi communications to upload its geo-referenced
readings to the Urban Tapestries platform. Over the next 2
months we will be developing a web interface to allow for more
sophisticated visualisation and interrogation of robot sensor
readings, and combining them with local knowledge uploaded to
Urban Tapestries by people in the area.<br />
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Project web page - <a
href="http://socialtapestries.net/feralrobots/index.html"
target="blank">http://socialtapestries.net/feralrobots/index.html</a></p>
<p>Field Trial Blog Entry - <a
href="http://urbantapestries.net/weblog/archives/cat_prototypes_trials_demos.html"
target="blank">http://urbantapestries.net/weblog/archives/cat_prototypes_trials_demos.html</a></p>
<p>Short Film of 1st Trial - <a
href="http://socialtapestries.net/feralrobots/RFPA_LondonFields_Jan2006.mp4"
target="blank">http://socialtapestries.net/feralrobots/RFPA_LondonFields_Jan2006.mp4</a><br />
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Initial Visualisations - <a
href="http://urbantapestries.net/weblog/archives/000151.html"
target="blank">http://urbantapestries.net/weblog/archives/000151.html</a><br />
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Community Mapping Workshop Documentation - <a
href="http://diffusion.org.uk/socialtapestries/D_STFR_Workshop_A4.pdf"
target="blank">http://diffusion.org.uk/socialtapestries/D_STFR_Workshop_A4.pdf</a><br />
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<b><i>About Social Tapestries:</i></b><br />
Social Tapestries is a research programme exploring the
potential benefits and costs of local knowledge mapping and
sharing, what they have termed the public authoring of
social knowledge. Over the next few years Proboscis will be
developing a series of experimental uses of public authoring to
demonstrate the social and cultural benefits of local knowledge
sharing enabled by mobile and network technologies. These
playful and challenging experiments build upon the Urban
Tapestries framework and software platform developed by
Proboscis and its partners. For more details see the Social
Tapestries site and the Urban Tapestreies blog at <b><a
href="http://urbantapestries.net/weblog/index.html"
target="blank">http://urbantapestries.net/weblog/index.html</a>
<a href="http://proboscis.org.uk/"
target="blank">http://proboscis.org.uk</a></b><br />
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