Awards

• Point to Discover has been nominated for the NOKIA Ubimedia Mindtrek2008 award.
• P2D was chosen as one of the success stories of the Austrian Research Promotion FFG in their annual report: Article from the supplement to the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard (german).

Press

Point to Discover was featured in the 2007 May issue of the GeoConnexion magazine in this press article

Further articles in the media about p2d include:

• DerStandard (March 2006, April 2007)
• APA Online Journale (June 2007)
• APA ZukunftWissen (September 2007)
• APA Online Journale: IT Business (September 2007)
• News (September 2007)
• Kleine Zeitung (September 2007)
• ORF 1 "Wien Heute" (March 2008)
• Krone Hitradio (April 2008)
• Forschen und Entdecken (June 2008)

Mobile Spatial Interaction Initiative

Following the success of the workshop on Mobile Spatial Interaction, held in conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007), we are compiling a special issue of the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal on Mobile Spatial Interaction (to appear in issue 13/4, April 2009). Please consider the table of contents (all papers of the special issue are already accessible via SpringerLink).

We also have written a feature article on Realizing Mobile Spatial Interaction for the ACM Interactions magazine (Jan/Feb 2008).

Publications

• Exploring the Design Space of Smart Horizons
  Peter Fröhlich, Gerhard Obernberger, Rainer Simon, and Peter Reichl (2008).
  Proc. Mobile HCI 2008.
• GeoPointing: Evaluating the Performance of an Orientation Aware Location Based Service under Real-World Conditions.
  Rainer Simon, Peter Fröhlich.
  Accepted for publication at the 4th International Symposium on LBS & TeleCartography (LBS2007), Hong Kong, China, November 8 - 10, 2007.
• The Point to Discover GeoWand
  Rainer Simon, Peter Fröhlich, Gerhard Obernberger, Erwin Wittowetz.
  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 07), Innsbruck, Austria, September 16 - 19, 2007.
  
• Envisioning Future Mobile Spatial Applications.
  Fröhlich, P., Simon, R., Muss, E., Stepan, A., and Reichl, P.
  Proceedings of British HCI conference, Lancaster, UK, September 3–7, 2007.
  
• Enabling Spatially Aware Mobile Applications.
  Rainer Simon, Peter Fröhlich, Hermann Anegg.
  Accepted for publication in Transactions in GIS, Blackwell Publishing.
• Simplified Guided Visibility Sampling for Location Based Services
  Stefan Maierhofer, Rainer Simon, Robert F. Tobler.
  CORP 2007, Vienna, Austria, May 20-23, 2007.
• A Mobile Application Framework for the Geospatial Web
  Rainer Simon, Peter Fröhlich.
  In Proceedings the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007), Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 8-12, 2007. Proc.: pp. 381-390. ACM Press.
  (Presentation slides)
• Mobile Spatial Interaction
  Peter Fröhlich, Rainer Simon, Lynne Baillie, Joi Roberts, Roderick Murray-Smith.
  In the Extended Abstracts of the ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007), San Jose, California, USA. ACM Press.
  Workshop Website
• Adding Space to Location in Mobile Emergency Response Technologies
  Peter Fröhlich, Rainer Simon, Christian Kaufmann
  MobileResponse 2007, International Workshop on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response, St. Augustin, Germany, February 22-23, 2007. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
• Beyond Location Based - The Spatially Aware Mobile Phone
  Rainer Simon, Peter Fröhlich, Hermann Anegg
  In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS 2006), Hong Kong, China, December 4-5, 2006. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
  Awarded Best Paper of the Symposium
  Presentation Slides
• Comparing Conceptual Designs for Mobile Access to Geo-Spatial Information
  Peter Fröhlich, Rainer Simon, Lynne Baillie, Hermann Anegg
  Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 06), Espoo, Finland, September 12-15, 2006.

Related Publications

The Point to Discover concept was first presented in the following conference paper, which was produced as part of the Creative Histories Project:

• Towards Orientation-Aware Location Based Mobile Services
  Rainer Simon, Harald Kunczier, Hermann Anegg
  3rd Symposium on LBS and TeleCartography, Vienna, Austria, November 28-30, 2005

The concept of a location- and orientation-aware mobile application for the Creative Histories Project was presented in this publication:

• Rolling, Rotating and Imagining in a Virtual Mobile World
  Lynne Baillie, Harald Kunczier, Hermann Anegg
  Proceedings of MobileHCI 2005, Salzburg, Austria, September 19-22, 2005