Status Report iPhone App: Hot Or Cold

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Status ReportiPhone App Hot Or Cold

• Ben Konicek

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Changes to Project

• iPhone App Hot Or Cold
• Professor Tesman
• Location-Based app
• Pathfinding

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Meetings With Client

• Prof. Tesman is very open-ended about the details
• At minimum should lead the user to the
  destination without giving a clear path
• Has left it up to me to work through Apples SDK

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Design Decisions

• Recent Locations?
• Timer?
• Display compass?
• How to communicate information to user
• Visual cues?
• Sound?
• Both?

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Literature Research

• As far as I can tell, no other applications like
  this
• Programming done in Objective-C
• Dickinson Library has copies of instructional
  books
• Apples Developer Page
• API
• iPhone programming tutorials

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Research Continued

• iPhone OS Reference Library
• API for iPhone programming
• Use in combination with literature on Objective-C
• Wu Wu, Effective Location Based Services with
  Dynamic Data Management in Mobile Environments
• Assesses prerequisites and requirements for
  effectively implementing location based services
  and applications
• Interesting points location dependency, period
  of validity (traffic timetables, current
  conditions)

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Requirements

• iPhone
• SDK simulator
• Apples iPhone Developer SDK
• Requires Mac OS 10.5

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Considerations

• What does it mean to be warm or cold?
• Distance from target
• CoreLocation framework
• Interface for obtaining users location
• Will not work (reliably) if just WiFi available
• MapKit framework
• Will probably be necessary even though no map is
  shown

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Implementation Strategies

• Distance from target
• Distance in a straight line
• Possible to find actual walking distance?
• Use in conjunction with heading
• iPhone Reference Library
• Objective-C