Field Explorer: Multimedia Data Management-Sharing System For Enhancing Student’s Fieldwork Activities
Yosuke TSUCHIYA3rd Year Ph.D course, Graduate School of Media and GovernanceKeio University, SFC.
Today’s Presentation Introduce “Field Explorer”
- Multimedia Data Management-Sharing System for Supporting Student’s Fieldwork Activities.
Demonstrating and PracticingField Explorer
BACKGROUND
Background
Recently, the number of students doing fieldwork in local communities in developing countries has increased.
◦ Needs to enhance activities of these students.
Background Recent development of Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) will be useful to enhance student’s activities in their own fields.
◦ Internet ⇒ enable to communicate more easily with their collaborators on the remote site. (Remote Collaboration)
◦ Digital Media ⇒ obtain relatively deep insights of the realities of the local communities
◦ Mobile Devices (lap-tops, netbooks)⇒ easily refer to these data anytime and anywhere.
Background However, no digital tools that are
designed to have all the merits included.
◦ Existing Management Tools (iPhoto, Picasa…. ) ⇒ Cannot classify plural media data such as photo, video, voices or texts with student’s viewpoints…..◦ Existing Collaboration Tools.⇒ Difficult to share the data with classified in student’s viewpoint.
Mission of the Field Explorer 1. To Enhance Knowledge Obtainment
Mission of the Field Explorer 2. To Enhance Remote Collaboration
ARCHITECTURE
Preconditions Should work on low-performance
mobile computer◦ So that not only students in developed
countries but also students in developing countries can use.
Should work under poor conditions to access the Internet.
Components Data Management◦ Classify and Manage Field Data with… Conceptual (keywords and Tags ⇒ Tree-
Structures) Temporal (Date and Times ⇒ Calendars ) Spatial (Locations ⇒ Maps)◦ Smooth Access to the Data
Data Sharing◦ Sharing Data with Classification On the Cloud Services. Using Dropbox, SkyDrive
Architecture of Data Management
Interface of Data Management
Architecture of Data Sharing
Interface of Data Sharing
DEMONSTRATION - DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL -
System Requirement
DevelopmentEnvironment
ProgrammingLanguage
Adobe Flex 4.0Adobe Action Script 3.0
DevelopmentEnvironment Runtime
Environment Adobe AIR 2.0 or laterDevelopmentEnvironment
DBMS SQLite 3
MinimumHardware
Requirement
CPUWindows: Intel Pentium 4 1.8Ghz or laterMac OS: Intel Core 2 Duo or later
MinimumHardware
RequirementMinimum Main Memory 512 MB
MinimumHardware
Requirement
OperatingSystem
Windows XP or laterMac OS X 10.5 Leopard or later
Definition: Fieldwork Data Recorded as Files in user’s computer.◦ Ex. Descriptions or notes = Notepad, Word Files
Observations = Photos (.jpg) or Videos (.avi) Interview = Voice Record (mp3) File Locations = GPS Log Files (.log)
Accumulated in user’s computer
Download and Install URL (Temporal):
http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~yosuke/download.html
Download and Install◦ Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is
required.◦ Click download icon on the website,
and the download and install process would start.
DEMONSTRATION - DATA MANAGEMENT -
STEP 1: Make Tabs and Folders
First, Making Tabs and Folders = Basic of Data Management
Note: We cannot add any data without making tabs and folders
Tabs: Basic Categories of the dataex. “2011 Summer in Vietnam” “Interview Data”, “XXX Journal”
Folders: Detail keywords of the dataex. “Women”, “xxx street”,
STEP 2: Add/Delete Files How to Add the Files (recorded each
FW Data)?1. Select a Tab and Folder that you want
to add2. Drag & Drop the file that you want to
add or “Files” → “Add Files”
How to delete the Files?1. Select the file that you want to delete.2. “Files” → “Delete Files”
STEP3: Add GPS Files (Optional)
1. Import GPS Log files from GPS Logger
2. “GPSLog” → “Import GPS Log”
3. Click “Browse” button to select the GPS Log file
4. Select timezone that the GPS data were logged.Ex. If you logged at Vietnam, choose “Hanoi”.
5. Click “Import”
6. Wait until the GPS log will be imported.
STEP 4: View the files From Tabs and Folders◦ Click the folder,
1. the files which are related to the folder would be picked up.
2. The date when you recorded are pointed on the calendar.
3. And the location where you recorded would be pointed on the Map (if the GPS Log Data were added)
From the Calendar◦ Click the date, and the files which are recorded on that day would be
picked up. and the route where you went would be traced on the
Map. (if the GPS Log Data on that day were added.)
DEMONSTRATION - DATA SHARING -
STEP1: Setup the Existing Cloud Services on your computer
Get Accounts in Dropboxhttp://www.dropbox.com/
or Turn on SkyDrive on Windows Live
Download and Install ◦ Dropbox Client (in case using Dropbox)◦ Windows Live Mesh (in case using
SkyDrive)
STEP2: Add your Cloud Folder
Left-top : Choose “Network” “Set-up” → “Dropbox” (or “SkyDrive”)
→ “myDirectory”
Set some configurations following the announcement
Click “Create” to make Sharing Folder in your Cloud Service Folder.
STEP 3: Sync your Local Folders and Files to the Sharing Folder “View” → “Dropbox” (or “SkyDrive)◦ Choose your Sharing Folder on the right side.
(your folder would be identified as “(my)”.
◦ Click the tabs which you want to sync on the left (local) side. ◦ “Control” → “Copy Selected Tab And Folders
to my Remote Directory”.
STEP 4: Share your Folder with Others
Access to Dropbox or SkyDrive on the Webpage.
Find the folder named “FEShare_<yourNickname>
Setup to share above folder following each announcements.
STEP 5: View Other’s Folder Before: You have already finished to share
other’s sharing folder via Dropbox or SkyDrive “Set-up” → “Dropbox” (or “SkyDrive”)
→ “OtherDirectory” Set some configurations following the
announcement “View” → “Dropbox” (or “SkyDrive”) Choose other’s Sharing Folder on the right side.
(Other’s folder would be identified as “(Collaborator)”.
Further Information If anything, please send a message to:
Recent Release: Please check the website:http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~yosuke/download.html
User’s Manual and Multi-Language version (Japanese, Vietnamese… ) would be released soon.
We are looking some people to help monitoring our system.
