[gps-talkusers] Mike May Wayfinding presentation at CVI in Atlanta


The following is an agenda of potential topics to be covered during Mike May's presentation, Current and Future Wayfinding Technologies, Thursday , January 19, 2006, 9-11 AM at the Center for the Visually Impaired in Atlanta. Please email MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx if you wish to attend.
Additionally, a web cast of this presentation may be available at http://www.senderogroup.com/chat.htm
This on-line site will accommodate up to 20 participants.

Agenda:

* Demonstration of the brand new BrailleNote Keysoft 7 including several new applications and features.

* BrailleNote GPS:
Showing of a Sendero GPS video, 12 minutes.
Features of the current GPS version.
Overview of GPS for beginners including travel stories and strengths and weaknesses.
New highly sensitive GPS receivers.
Upcoming improvements in the next BrailleNote GPS release.

* Other accessible GPS products:
Pros and cons of the Trekker and StreetTalk as well as the commercially available Wayfinder and Telenav cell phone GPS products.

* Wayfinding Research:
Discussion of the collaborative project by Sendero and its five partner organizations including testing of the efficiency of using GPS versus without GPS, spatial presentation of information and verbal language announcements; mental imaging and cognitive load.

* Emerging Wayfinding technologies:
More about accessible GPS on cell phones.
Indoor positioning technologies such as dead reckoning, Talking Lights, WiFi, Bluetooth, cell phone signals, television signals, reflective bar code tags, RFID-passive and active, Talking Signs, SnapTrack.

* How useful is GPS for a low vision person from the perspective of someone who has been totally blind and now has some vision?

Location:

BellSouth Community Room
Center for the Visually Impaired
739 West Peachtree Street, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30308
404-875-9011
directions at: http://www.cviatlanta.org


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