WiFi Location-based Applications @ CRAFT

Fabien Girardin

Center for Research and Support of Training and its TechnologiesSwiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

CatchBob!A multi-user game to explore the impacts of location awarness on collaboration and problem solving

Narrow channels of communication

Player confrontation andData analysis

Rich channels of communication

TabletPC

Replay tool

iPaq

ShoutSpace

Enables user with WiFi mobile devices to see their position and leave

messages to other users

A geographical messaging system as a segway on an ontology of spatial communication.

Study on the links of geographical attributes and cognitionInterest in the interconnection of place and meaning

CraftDeamon

C++ DLL which calls NDIS functions on the WiFi card

Returns the detected BSSIDs and their RSSID

CraftDeamon's methods are exported to be invoked by C# clients (e.g. CRAFT Stumbler)