[WebPub] QR Codes on Campus

[Allan Doyle]

Working on mobile tours for the Museum is a bit of an overstatement of what we're doing. We're going to be leading traditional guided tours in April. And our MIT150 Exhibition will feature some objects that can be found around campus. So we may have some location-tagged content. We're hoping that we might be able to piggyback off of what Justin is doing for the Institute's 150 tours. Hence my interest in knowing what others are doing.

	Allan

On Oct 28, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Amy Helfman wrote:

> Hi Allan,
> 
> I heard from Justin today that you’re working on mobile tours for the Museum. I’d like to learn more about that from you.
> 
> Justin and his team at IS&T are developing a campus tour for MIT150 that will be incorporated into the existing MIT apps for iPhone and (soon) Droid. The tour will remain part of the apps after MIT150 ends.
> 
> The scope of this project is to take the self-guided tour map that's distributed at the MIT Information Center and turn it into a location-aware mobile application. We plan to have QR codes so that users who are set up to use them can take a picture of a code and be directed to mobile web content about 1) the location itself and 2) events taking place at that location. As I understand it, the mobile team at IS&T will be able to change the URL(s) associated with each code, so that they can be re-purposed at will.
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> We are still in the discovery phase regarding QR codes, and I’m as anxious as anyone to learn more about them. Perhaps this is a good topic for a WebPub meeting? I’d love to hear from someone who’s an expert but not a vendor. Does anyone on WebPub know such a person?
> 
> Amy
> 
> Amy Helfman
> Webmaster, MIT150
> http://mit150.mit.edu
> www.facebook.com/mit150
> twitter.com/mit150
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> On 10/28/10 2:46 PM, "Allan Doyle" <afdoyle at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I'd also like to keep in the loop about any "official" QR codes. I just talked to Justin Anderson about the MIT mobile app tours and heard that there might be QR codes. One big question would be how different groups could rely on the same codes since each would contain a single URL. Also, would these be maintained beyond 2011? 
>> 
>> Allan
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>> On Oct 28, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Amy Helfman wrote:
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>>> Hi Lars,
>>> 
>>> We’re planning to incorporate QR codes into signage for the MIT150 Open House. We’re still in the planning stages, but I’d be happy to talk with you about them.
>>> 
>>> Amy
>>> 
>>> Amy Helfman
>>> Webmaster, MIT150
>>> http://mit150.mit.edu <http://mit150.mit.edu/> 
>>> www.facebook.com/mit150 <http://www.facebook.com/mit150> 
>>> twitter.com/mit150 <http://twitter.com/mit150> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> On 10/28/10 2:13 PM, "Lars Hasselblad Torres" <lhtorres at mit.edu <x-msg://259/lhtorres@mit.edu> > wrote:
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>>>> Hey folks,
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>>>> Anyone have experience with using QR codes on campus and care to offer any insights? Trying to figure out whether its worth it eg for getting events into people’s calendars via smartphone etc...
>>>> 
>>>> And if so, anything better than Google Charts for generating?
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>> lars
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