The following article about "Tales of Things", an interesting augmented memory app, was recently selected for review by Personal and Ubiquitous Computing:
An Internet of Old Things as an Augmented Memory System
An Internet of Old Things as an Augmented Memory System
Ralph Barthel, Kerstin Leder, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Angelina Karpovich, Martin de Jode, Chris Speed, University College London / Loughborough University
After watching the following videos and exploring the Tales of Things website, I am sure that this sort of technology will have many uses in education. Wouldn't it be fun to have a "tales of things" project for a homework assignment?!
In the following video, Chris Speed discusses the Tales of Things project:
Tales of Things Beta: Connecting anything with any media, anywhere!
Below is a video of how an old Fisher Price teaching clock can become part of a "tale of things":
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Tales of Things: The Internet of "Old" Things: Collecting Stories of Objects, Places, and Spaces (pdf) Ralph Barthel, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Martin de Jode, Benjamin Blundell, CASA Centre For Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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