Spatial Googling Midterm Presentation

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URBAN CYBERNETICRBAN CYBERNETIC PATENTATENTSpatial Googling(2010)

Patent for SpatialGoogling

(0) Explaination of the Category

the methode, the operation and/or

the device

(1) Inventors: Lauren Matrka,

Stacy Morton, Peter Zuroweste

Correspondence Address:

10 Akron Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

TEL:847.219.2637

The explosion of the internet as a search

tool has taken away the exploration

inherent in man. Instead of exploring a

city, it has become habit to surf the web

and find a destination before the physical

journey has begins. This leads to less time

in the physical environment where

serendipity and social interactions occur.

RFID technology is greatly changing the way

products can be tracked; outdating

barcodes. RFID tags store relevant data of

the object on an almost invisible chip canbe read by an RFID reader when in proximity

to one another. This combined with the

recent influence of mobile cell phones and

specifically the devices wireless

connectivity protocols such as Bluetooth,

creates an opportunity to generate new ways

of searching and exploring cities.

Spatial Googling is the ability to create

purposeful serendipity by means of

passively moving through a city and

simultaneously searching for an object or

researching a topic of interest. An

individual is able to enter keywords on

their cell phone and using a combination

RFID and Bluetooth technology, be alterted

when passing a tagged objects with matching

keyword to their search query.

(3) ABSTRACT

(2) Keywords:RFID, bluetooth,

tracking, searching, library,

archive

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