Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Interacting with nature (15 Oct 2004) CAERUS, which was launched at the University of Birmingham's Botanic Garden at Winterbourne, has been designed as 'a complete context aware system for tourist locations and educational centres', creating and delivering location-based multimedia information to hand-held (pocket PC) devices. The product of research into location-aware technologies at the Centre for Educational Technology and Distance Learning (CETADL), it is designed to allow the user to direct the content of their tour by physically following their interests. By tracking user movement with GPS technology, CAERUS provides information relevant to the user's location. The information is provided orally to begin with, in this case recounting the story of the gardens, and of particular exhibitions and flowerbeds. Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/art35.htm Read 114 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Search is Not All There     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy