EDINA have been commissioned by JISC to conduct a scoping study
investigating the potential and the demand for mobile GIS, in particular,
the use of Digimap data and services in higher and further education and
research. As part of the study we are evaluating different technologies and
frameworks and piloting a Digimap mobile application. You can keep up with
progress via the project blog http://mobilegeo.wordpress.com/ , which we
hope will be helpful to anyone doing work in mobile and location based
services. As a major part of the study is understanding how the HE community
is deploying and using mobile technology we would very much welcome comments
and information on what people in this list are doing.

Kind regards,

Ben Butchart

Workgroup leader, Software Engineering
EDINA 
Causewayside House
160 Causewayside
Edinburgh EH9 1PR

Tel: +44 (0)131 651 1227
Fax: +44 (0)131 650 3308
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mobile Special Interest Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Hooton, Tim
Sent: 12 January 2010 13:44
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Welcome, and introductions

Hi all,
	We are involved with an internal project to improve student feedback
in professional Optometry practicals. This is using iPod Touches for staff
supervisors to collect data, initially using standard iPhone Apps and
emailed to the course tutor. We now have a final year Computer Science
student project to develop a specialist data collection app to automate some
of the processes using the iPhone SDK. I personally hope that this can lead
to more generic application/s linked to our VLE(BlackBoard).

Tim Hooton
Media & Learning Technologies
Centre for Learning Innovation and Professional Practice Aston University
Birmingham, B4 7ET Direct dial: 0121 204 4228
Email: [log in to unmask]





-----Original Message-----
From: Mobile Special Interest Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Alexander Dutton
Sent: 12 January 2010 13:22
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Welcome, and introductions

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Dear all,

Welcome! It seems that subscriptions are slowing, making this a good time to
express my consternation at just how many people have an interest in this
area. I'll start with some background, but feel free to disregard or
disagree as necessary!


There seem to be a lot of HE institutions involved in mobile technologies in
one way or another. A fair few have produced mobile-friendly web portals or
iPhone applications. Others are realising that users are increasingly using
PC-oriented services from a mobile device, and are seeking to improve access
for those on the move.

Our team at Oxford have been making connections with other institutions to
share information, ideas and code. However, to a certain extent these
connections have been serendipitous and their results haven't been able to
be fed back to the larger community.

This list is (initially) intended to be a forum to discuss any and all
aspects of catering for mobile users in a HE setting. A non-exhaustive list
of things you may wish to discuss is:

* mobile computing
* mobile websites
* mobile application development
* increasing and improving access to services from mobile devices
* mobile browser and capabilities detection
* mobile-friendly CSS
* inter-institutional collaboration and code-sharing
* geolocation and mapping

The following aspects of the above topics might also be worth some
discussion:

* design
* implementation
* testing
* best practice
* success (or otherwise) stories

These lists are obviously not prescriptive!


To get things started, I'd like to encourage people to give us a small
description of what mobile-related projects they're working on. I'll post
about what we're up to here shortly, but feel free to post something in the
meantime.

Yours,

Alex


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Alexander Dutton
Erewhon Project Officer | m.ox.ac.uk developer Oxford University Computing
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