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LoMAK: a framework for generating locative media apps from KML files

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In this paper, we present the LoMAK framework which enables non-programmers (e.g., people working in the Digital Humanities, History, Geography, Geology and Archaeology areas) to generate locative media mobile apps from KML files, a format that these non-programmers are familiar with. The framework has two primary components: a KML processor web application and an Android mobile 'player' app called LoMAK player. The KML processor parses KML files to: (1) extract points of interest (POI) and their associated media, (2) produce geo-fences for the POIs, and (3) render the PoIs and their geo-fences on a map. The framework also supports the editing of geo-fences, i.e., a new geo-fence can be drawn as a polygon. The POIs and their associated media and geo-fences are then saved as a sharc file on a server. The LoMAK player loads this sharc file to operate as a locative media application.

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    EICS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems
    June 2014
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    ISBN:9781450327251
    DOI:10.1145/2607023
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    1. authoring tool
    2. framework
    3. geo-fences
    4. kml
    5. lbs
    6. locative media
    7. push-based

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    • (2015)Supporting the Mobile In-situ Authoring of Locative Media in Rural PlacesInternational Journal of Handheld Computing Research10.4018/IJHCR.20150101016:1(1-19)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2015
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    • (2015)Learning from the expertsProceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing10.1145/2750858.2805838(755-766)Online publication date: 7-Sep-2015

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