Monday, April 27, 2015

Final Project: Historic Boston Reference Materials

For this assignment I researched reference materials to Boston Tea Party including the dates, maps, GIS data, and man-made/natural structures. Below are the screenshots of me researching reference materials.



Boston Tea Party - December 16, 1773


American Revolution - 1775-1783




Boston map during the Battle of Lexington


Boston 1775 map


Boston 1778 map with scale


Scale


Boston 1775 GIS data showing Boston street layout back then


One of the important man-made building structures during American Revolution


Another man-made harbor, decks, ships, and loads during American Revolution


Above is the general scenery of nature in Boston during Boston Tea Party showing water coming into the town and mountains on the back. According to the article, The Boston Tea Party: Then & Now, back then Boston had more free lands of hills, trees, and mountains due to less civilization and destructions



References:








Sunday, April 26, 2015

Class 10, Minecraft (Facebook and Google+)

For this assignment, I shared Minecraft post from IMMERSION Facebook page with each of my group that I joined for this class. 



Shared with Virtapay


Shared with Smart Watch and Wearables


Shared with 3D Printing


Shared with Virtual Gaming


Shared with Gear VR put pending for approval


Shared with Google+ Oculus Rift Developers


Shared with Google+ Virtual Credit Card


Shared with Google+ Augmented Reality


Shared with Google+ 3D Printing


Shared with Google+ Robotics


Shared with Google+ 3D Holographics


Shared with Google+ Virtual World

Class 10, Facebook events as an "opt-in" form of collaboration

For this assignment, I simply joined the event from IMMERSION Facebook page and shared with it with each of my Facebook group that I joined for this course. Below are the screenshots of me joining the event and sharing it. 



This is joining the event


Shared with Virtapay


Shared with Smart Watch and Wearables


Shared with 3D printing


Shared with Gear VR but my post is pending for approval

Class 10, Instagram as a collaboration tool

  • Instagram is a social media where people post and share photos. Many functions provided in Facebook is not available in Instagram, but it has its own unique characteristic. Instagram is a way to post picture in a very high resolution. Instagram allows the users to also share videos. The maximum duration for Instagram videos is 15 seconds.
  • Instagram is growing globally with 100 million users world-wide.
  • It received best mobile app at the 2010 TechCrunch.

  • confines photo into a square shape.
  • created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger
  • launched in October 2010
  • By December 2010, Insta
  • gram had 1 million registered users
  • photographic filters available
  • people can choose to link Instagram to their Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Foursquare, and Flickr accounts.
  • Instagram does a great job curating suggested users and trending photos.

Class 10, Snapchat as a collaboration tool



  • Snapchat is specifically a photo messaging application that shares photos, records videos, writes a short message and can include drawings.
  • Snapchat also has a function to send small amount of money by teaming up with Sqaure Cash.
  • “My Story” and “Our Story” have been added.
  • developed by Stanford University students - Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown.
  • Snapchat was the talk of the town recently after rejecting $3 billion buyout from Facebook.

  • photo messaging application
  • pictures are shown for limited amount of time (senders decide on time
  • hinders from screenshotting images
  • By sending pictures with a small text, we can send more effective messages.
  • Also in a recent snapchat update, the ability to video chat live with another person was added to the software. Previously snapchat only supported sending photographs and videos up to 10 seconds long, but now with the video chat feature snapchat can become a quick conference collaboration tool. A video chat on snapchat can be opened in only a few seconds, and closed immediately, removing any signing into skype or other video chat software, and can even be quicker than facetime on iPhones because connection can happen much faster, and the other person does not have to have an iPhone.

Class 10, IMMERSION 2015 outreach (Facebook and Google+)


For this assignment, I shared one specific video from IMMERSION Facebook page with each of my Facebook group and Google+ group that I joined for this class. Below are the screenshots of me sharing the video and including proper information to the post.



This is me sharing with Virtapay Facebook group


Shared with Virtapay (Facebook)


Shared with Smart Watch and Wearables (Facebook)


Shared with 3D Printing (Facebook)


I shared with Gear VR group but it is pending for approval


Shared with 3D Holographic (Google+)


Shared with Robotics (Google+)


Shared with 3D Printing (Google+)


Shared with Augmented Reality (Google+)


Shared with Virtual Credit Card (Google+)


Shared with Oculus Rift (Google+)

Monday, April 13, 2015

Class 9: Collaborative Web Pages with TogetherJS

As I was exploring TogetherJS, I was able to find many features that can be very collaborative and convenient in working together. I was able to use sample apps such as drawing, Mad Libs, and watching Youtube together. We were easily able to communicate while doing our work and felt like I'm in the same working place with others. 







Class 9: Google Docs HTML files


This is me uploading my Immersion 2015 report on my files.


This is html version of my Wearable Computing report. 



Class 9: My own Prezi presentation

Prezi had a number of templates that I had never used them from Microsoft Powerpoint. I first chose Wearable Computer topic from my Immersion 2015 reports, which I liked the most. Then I started to fill out the circles from my templates and added one relative picture to my presentation.