Update

Week 6 of college, I've begun to look at design and the steps necessary for good Human Centered design.
I was focusing a lot on the technical side so I'm backing up in to my design roots again, HCI and Interactive Design. Along with that over the past couple of weeks, I've been reading papers on Open Air Museums, Context Aware Devices in Museums/Open Air Museums. I plan on writing up some notes on the relevance of these on Sunday.


I have most of the presentation to show my progress so far and what I hope to achieve, I'm doing up a plan of action and a timeline with that. I will have this done by the beginning of next week. I must get the steps necessary and figure out what dates will  be good to head out to Bunratty Folkpark once I'm allowed head out. I'll be doing observing, and group work out there to start with. 


Downloaded 3 AR iPhone apps to my phone over the past week. It really has the potential to be a great technology if it's designed and implemented right. Looking forward to see what all the developers do with it in the future. Hopefully my media will be good enough too.

The Title...

The FYP I have chosen is titled Mobile Video Augmented Reality for Spatial Navigation.

It is part of a bigger project going on the IDC and will be based in Bunratty Castle.

Specification, design and prototype development of an Augmented Reality interface for mobile phones to aid the navigation of a space (exhibition, university campus, urban space, etc.) through video content. Using an Augmented Reality toolkit, the contents and interaction scenarios will have to be specified in accordance to a particular space/user group.

So far, I have looked up papers on Augmented Reality and have a good background on that. I have papers on Mobile Technology, and Open Air Museums that I have yet to read and I'm sure there is a lot more research to be done on that online.