Bcswomen Spring Event: Bletchley Park

Tuesday 17 March 2015

Augmented Reality for Walkers on Android

Speaker: Nick Whitelegg Time: 6.00pm for demo, 6.30pm for presentation

Venue: Southampton Solent University, Reginald Mitchell building, 3rd floor, room RM325, East Park Terrace, Southampton, SO14 0RD Maps: Directions and maps at www.solent.ac.uk

Joint with the BCS Hampshire Branch, BCS Open Source and Southampton Solent University; part of the Science and Technology Week activities.

This event is free, open to all, but please if possible book through the BCS website, https://events.bcs.org/book/1362/, both for BCS members and non-members for arranging refreshments, and particularly as the numbers are limited. Augmented reality - the concept of overlaying the real world with digital data - is becoming increasingly popular in the smartphone app world. This talk will discuss the development of an Android augmented reality app for walkers in which the camera feed is overlaid with footpath data from OpenStreetMap.

The talk will discuss the technical details of how the app is being developed - including use of the sensor and OpenGL APIs - as well as some of the issues surrounding the real-world usability of the app, and how the app is expected to develop in the future.

The talk will be preceded (weather permitting) by a short demo of the app in East Park opposite the university between 6 – 6.15pm. For this demo please meet in the main concourse of the University by 6pm at the latest (we cannot delay the start otherwise it will get dark!)

Nick Whitelegg is a senior lecturer in Computing (Web Development) at Southampton Solent University and teaches on a range of undergraduate software development courses including Java and web development. He has contributed software and data to the OpenStreetMap mapping project and has developed an open source mapping site and associated tools for walkers.

Details on the British Science Week web site, http://www.britishscienceweek.org/events/augmented-reality-for-walkers-on-android- evening-event/ as well as the BCS Hampshire web site http://www.bcs.org/category/12189