Navigation Systems

After our bright and early class this morning I really want to think of some more exciting ideas. I think that there will be a lot of cross-over with the designs and making it something unexpected will be best. The only problem with that is that I tend to choose ideas that are difficult to pull off and a large part of me wants to do something practical for the now, like a phone app that could be used today.

My initial ideas were all involving the app style, but today I got a few more ideas about specifics.

I'd really like whatever it is (lets say app for now) to have options for people who know where they are, and people who don't. Say you are in a building at Kelburn campus and you don't know where, or what building because someone else walked with you and you were following them. Then you could choose the option for "i don't know where I am" and the GPS could find you. But then I also like having the I'm here, I want to get here option and then having options on which instructions you take, you could have written instructions, or a map, or visual cues, or something which you hold up and your phone tells you how to get to a specific  destination.

I wonder if road signs and markers saying which building etc would be necessary in the future. At the moment using the signs is how people get around, but if we all have our own navigating system and everything is done via technology then would the signs still be there to ensure you could know you were in the right place for sure? What if your phone was broken?

I also really liked the idea of using your timetable to show where you need to be next and where you are, so it could be on the my vic page for everybody, although you would want something interactive for when you are out and about and aren't going from class to class, but still.

I will continue to think about this one, and look up some technology that's coming out at the moment and see if I can push that even further and make something really out of the box!


hhmmmm...