{"id":2412,"date":"2009-12-04T07:51:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T15:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2009-12-04T04:56:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T12:56:19","slug":"mobile-very-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/?p=2412","title":{"rendered":"mobile. very mobile."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developers have built applications for mobile phones to support a wide swath of activities, but I would argue that there is no better use for a mobile phone than for those tasks that are <em>fundamentally<\/em> mobile. And what is more mobile than running? While there have been a variety of research projects (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/dub.washington.edu\/projects\/ubifit\">UbiFit<\/a>) designed to encourage exercise, I am more interested here in those applications that support folks who&#8217;ve already bought in. For us, smart phones that make it easy to track pace, distance, and even elevation (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/runkeeper.com\">RunKeeper<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sportstracker.nokia.com\/nts\/main\/index.do\">SportsTracker<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/gps.motionx.com\">MotionXGPS<\/a>) have been killer apps. Research projects (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=1409268&amp;dl=GUIDE&amp;coll=GUIDE&amp;CFID=64331003&amp;CFTOKEN=96928463\">TripleBeat<\/a>) are also exploring how to increase competition using past personal results as well as results from other users. <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=1240866.1241045\">Other work<\/a> has explored using shared audio spaces to allow runners to compete over distances.<\/p>\n<p>How else might we use mobile technologies to improve the running experience? <!--more-->One idea is to utilize VR and AR technologies to visualize in one digital space distributed competitors (similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=1378063.1378143\">this work<\/a>). Also, for trail runners, it might be nice to download a run (e.g., from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everytrail.com\">EveryTrail<\/a>) and be notified of upcoming turns. One could image integrating concepts from <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/0909.2185\">SeeReader<\/a>, presenting photographs of the most relevant upcoming landmarks on the display while reading out directions. Such an interface might also request that a user take photos in areas where data is sparse, and it could provide simple interfaces to view and mark obstacles or scenic spots. Other applications might monitor some aspect of a runner&#8217;s posture (similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=1358852&amp;dl=GUIDE&amp;coll=GUIDE&amp;CFID=66061359&amp;CFTOKEN=33940425\">research on snowboard training<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, sometimes it is nice to just leave all of the technology behind and head into the woods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developers have built applications for mobile phones to support a wide swath of activities, but I would argue that there is no better use for a mobile phone than for those tasks that are fundamentally mobile. And what is more mobile than running? While there have been a variety of research projects (such as UbiFit) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}