Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 563.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: Sara Monaci <monaci@museonazionaledelcinema.org> (20)
Subject: Re: 16.557 wireless & humanities computing?
[2] From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@ischool.utexas.edu> (9)
Subject: Re: 16.557 wireless & humanities computing?
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:40:03 +0000
From: Sara Monaci <monaci@museonazionaledelcinema.org>
Subject: Re: 16.557 wireless & humanities computing?
At the National Cinema Museum we're usung PDA in a Wireless Lan network to
distribute multimedia contents to visitors.
In this phase we're testing a prototype of this application, using PDA iPaq
connected to the wireless lan with multimedia contents related to the
museum's exhibit.
We involved focus-groups of students in IT to test the application and we
had a good feedback.
We really hope to carry out a service fit to our audience's requirements.
in this way we could replace the more obsolete audioguides and give an
innovative service to the Museum.
Sara Monaci
Sara Monaci
New Media
Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Via Montebello, 15
10124 Torino - Italy
Tel. ++39 +11 8122814
Fax. ++39 +11 8398501
monaci@museonazionaledelcinema.org
http://www.museonazionaledelcinema.it
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:47:29 +0000
From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@ischool.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.557 wireless & humanities computing?
Too bad the student couldn't just walk across campus and appreciate the
spring leafing instead of being chimed by her computer, chirruped by her
cell phone, or dinned at by music on her walkman (well, okay, Vivaldi might
be nice). Wireless computing on the University of Texas campus is so far
limited to individual buildings and is suffering from turf wars and serious
existing RF interference, particularly in the science-heavy parts of the
campus. I see that AT&T is looking to experiment with having pay phone
sites become also sites for wireless access to the Internet...
Pat Galloway
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