We are interested to study emergent individual and group behaviors associated with the ability to digital tag objects and places. In our system, a user can associate text, threaded conversations, audio, images, video or other data with a specific tag. Users can review the tags they have encountered and annotated in a custom web portal. Optionally, they can opt to have their comments be posted onto newsgroups. This allows search engines to index and essentially publish the association to other users. Physical annotations can be shared with other users and be rated by the users’ reputation statistics.
Mission
AURA is a wireless system for digitally identifying, annotating physical objects, and sharing of these annotations.
Through AURA, we are interested to study the emergent behaviors and opportunities of ubiquitous digital annotation of everyday objects and places. We argue that many seemingly far-in-the-future wireless applications can be realized today with existing, readily available, technologies. Several applications are built using AURA: object annotation, indoor navigation, location-based bulletin board, and virtual museum guide.
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