Claudia Alejandra Queiruga

UNLP Aumentada: Desafíos y retos

In this article, it is described the experience in the development of mobile Augmented Reality (AR) applications written in JAVA with the open source framework Look!AR. This work is the result of an articulation between a research project on a mobile application testbed and a course of the School of Computing, National University of La Plata (UNLP) in which the students obtain new skills in the development of software, taking under consideration issues such as the user-oriented-design, the mobility and the integration. Being that the utilization and development of innovative technologies are suitable elements to take into account in computer science degrees; modern technologies must be incorporated to portray the fundamental concepts and, in this way, to familiarize students with their future as a professional, as it is of great interest the students of computer science. It represents a challenge when it comes to develop software for platforms with peculiarities such as screen and hardware restrictions, and with new advantageous features like sensors of movement and temperature, GPS, and camera, for instance.

mTagATune: Mobile TagATune -- Audio Files Tagging Mobile Game

mTagATune is a mobile application based on TagATune [9] and developed in JAVA for Android cell phones. mTagATune implements the concept of GWAP [2] and seizes the capabilities and wide acceptance of current smart phones. GWAP promotes the creation of computer games that encourage people to do voluntary work. mTagATune implements a game that collects information on audio files to facilitate future searches on them. By means of a collaborative game, mTagATune enables an ubiquitous collection of information on audio files that can later be used in search results.