Title :
Geotagger: A collaborative environmental inquiry platform
Author :
Fails, Jerry Alan ; Herbert, Katherine ; Hill, Emily ; De Stefano, Andrew ; Hesse, Brandon ; Cushman, Paul ; Gant, Travis ; Shah, Syed ; Abreu-Cruz, Aliet ; Panchariya, Nikita ; Nimbagal, Varsha
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Montclair State Univ., Montclair, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Geotagger is a collaborative environmental inquiry platform that enables children and adults alike the opportunity to observe the world around them, document that observation, share it, and encourage discussion around that tagged item of interest. The main objectives are to leverage the rampant use of and affinity for technology to encourage people to observe the natural world around them and to share and discuss that information with peers and colleagues. We present the Geotagger platform, share some initial feedback from various users, and we discuss how Geotagger has evolved based on that feedback.
Keywords :
geographic information systems; mobile computing; query processing; social networking (online); Geotagger platform; adults; children; collaborative environmental inquiry platform; initial feedback sharing; mobile platform; natural world observation; technology affinity; Androids; Big data; Collaboration; Crowdsourcing; Humanoid robots; Mobile communication; Prototypes; collaboration; cross-platform; ecology; environment; exploring; mobile; science; sustainabiltiy;
Conference_Titel :
Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2015 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-7647-1
DOI :
10.1109/CTS.2015.7210453
