InfoD-Cafe: Lansdown Lecture Wednesday 10 Feb - Prof. Jonathan Raper on Location-Based Media

[Stephen Boyd Davis]

Although Jonathan will not be focussing on information design as such, I
think the implications of his work may be of interest to some on this list.

Stephen


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Stephen Boyd Davis
Reader in Interactive Media
Acting Head, Art and Design Research Institute
Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts  EN4 8HT, UK




Lansdown Lecture: Prof. Jonathan Raper on Location-Based Media
When: 4:45pm, Wednesday 10 February 2010
Where: Room 137, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet EN4 8HT



A Lansdown Lecture for the Art and Design Research Institute at Middlesex
University.

As media escape the traditional confines of the screen and the page they
have become interactive, social, portable and personal. One of the most
significant developments has been location-sensitivity. Devices such as
phones, PDAs, cameras - and of course cars - now know where they are, and
this opens up startling possibilities for providing pertinent, topical
information, tailored to the user's current situation. It also generates
spatial information about users' movements which can be used for many
purposes.

I am therefore particularly pleased to announce a Lansdown Lecture by
Jonathan Raper, Professor of Geographic Information Science at City
University London. He is an internationally renowned expert who has recently
focussed on the design, development and implications of location-based
services and will talk on Publishing and Discovering Locative Media. He is
currently advising the Mayor of London on the London DataStore project to
release all London's public sector data.

This is a rare opportunity to get to grips with these new opportunities and
identify the potential - and perhaps the dangers - for the future.

Entrance free. All welcome. No need to book.

http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/?location_id=85&item=32


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Stephen Boyd Davis
Reader in Interactive Media
Acting Head, Art and Design Research Institute
Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts  EN4 8HT
United Kingdom
Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072
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The Lansdown Centre's Web Pages are at http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/

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