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Jul 26
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PocketGuide: City Audio Tours with 3D Route Playback

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PocketGuide is an iPhone/Android and Ovi app that provides a professionally voiced audio tour of the city based on your GPS location. The innovative part comes in as while taking the tour the app is tracking your route and allows the ability to share a 3D tour of tour trip along with embedded photographs and audio:

PocketGuide in action from Pocketguide on Vimeo.

We really like PocketGuide, especially its offline mode so full tours can be played without being caught by high roaming data charges.

To find out more head over to http://www.mypocketguide.eu/en/pocket-guide-city-guide/

Jul 25
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Crowdsourcing in Research Method News

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Crowdsourcing (Howe, 2008) is the term of used for methods of data creation, where large groups of users who are not organised centrally generate content that is shared. From direct public involvement via citizen science initiatives, such as the well documented Galaxy Zoo, through to simply tapping into online data feeds, we are arguably in a new era of volunteered information and knowledge creation.


The notion that there might be value in harvesting the knowledge of individuals is based on the observation that, although large in number of individual estimates may be incorrect, their average can be a match for expert judgment. Judiciously handled, randomly sampling the opinions or calculations of a large number of users might lead to data and information that is surprisingly accurate and that, in some cases, cannot be recorded in any other way (Surowiecki, 2004)……

We discuss in brief the issues and opportunities surrounding crowdsourcing in this months newsletter from the National Centre for Research Methods:

Jul 25
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Crowdsourcing in Research Method News

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Crowdsourcing (Howe, 2008) is the term of used for methods of data creation, where large groups of users who are not organised centrally generate content that is shared. From direct public involvement via citizen science initiatives, such as the well documented Galaxy Zoo, through to simply tapping into online data feeds, we are arguably in a new era of volunteered information and knowledge creation.


The notion that there might be value in harvesting the knowledge of individuals is based on the observation that, although large in number of individual estimates may be incorrect, their average can be a match for expert judgment. Judiciously handled, randomly sampling the opinions or calculations of a large number of users might lead to data and information that is surprisingly accurate and that, in some cases, cannot be recorded in any other way (Surowiecki, 2004)……

We discuss in brief the issues and opportunities surrounding crowdsourcing in this months newsletter from the National Centre for Research Methods:

Jul 20
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The Global Lab Podcast: Episode 1 now available on iTunes

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Here at digital urban, we are enthused to announce that the first episode of The Global Lab podcast from CASA is now available on iTunes.

The Global Lab is a podcast about cities, global connectivity and the impact of technology produced by the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL-CASA). Each episode features the latest news and perspectives from urban analysis, social complexity and innovation, as well as interviews with cutting-edge researchers from UCL-CASA and guests from further afield.

As i mentioned in the previous trailer post – this as an exciting development in our outreach at CASA, thanks go to Martin and Steven for pushing this forward and of course the Beacon Bursary Scheme at the UCL Public Engament Unity for funding the equipment.

Episodes will follow every couple of weeks, we are biased of course and its early days, but its fantastic…
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