The field trial is now coming to a close and we've been exceptionally fortunate to have had participants willing to share their experiences with us, as well as the content they've entered into the system. Many thanks from Proboscis and our partners to all of you.
Our next task is to begin the daunting task of collating and evaluating the participant feedback, analysing their threads and pockets on the system, as well as analysing the system logs. We hope to build up a picture of why, what, where, when and how often the system was used. Coupled with the experiential feedback from the participants this should become an invaluable resource for looking at the future of mobile data services and spatial annotations systems. We'll be publishing the results in September in a commercial / policy white paper, as well as online. Meanwhile you can sample some extra-curricular notes from participant Dan Hill here and here.
We are particularly pleased to report that, aside from frustrations with the slowness of GPRS and the P800, none of the participants suffered any major problems requiring technical support. Our worst mishap seems to have been the loss of one phone in a burglary!
Our next task is to build a web viewer to allow remote access to the UT system which we hope to have ready by late July/early August (pending license agreements with the Ordnance Survey).
Posted by Giles Lane at July 5, 2004 01:51 AM