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CitiTag Multiplayer Infrastructure
Techreport ID: kmi-04-07
Date: 2004
Author(s): Kevin Quick and Yanna Vogiazou
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This report gives a technical overview of the program logic and the architecture for the CitiTag game, a wireless location based game, developed by the Knowledge Media Institute's Centre for New Media in collaboration with HP Labs' Mobile Bristol team. CitiTag is a real-time multiplayer team game, played outdoors using GPS (Global Positioning System) and handheld, PocketPCs connected to a wireless network. CitiTag aims to encourage social experiences and group play in public spaces, based on the awareness of other peoples' presence.
 
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Semantic Web and Knowledge Services
"The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation" (Berners-Lee et al., 2001).

Our research in the Semantic Web area looks at the potentials of fusing together advances in a range of disciplines, and applying them in a systemic way to simplify the development of intelligent, knowledge-based web services and to facilitate human access and use of knowledge available on the web. For instance, we are exploring ways in which tnatural language interfaces can be used to facilitate access to data distributed over different repositories. We are also developing infrastructures to support rapid development and deployment of semantic web services, which can be used to create web applications on-the-fly. We are also investigating ways in which semantic technology can support learning on the web, through a combination of knowledge representation support, pedagogical theories and intelligent content aggregation mechanisms. Finally, we are also investigating the Semantic Web itself as a domain of analysis and performing large scale empirical studies to uncover data about the concrete epistemologies which can be found on the Semantic Web. This exciting new area of research gives us concrete insights on the different conceptualizations that are present on the Semantic Web by giving us the possibility to discover which are the most common viewpoints, which viewpoints are mutually inconsistent, to what extent different models agree or disagree, etc...

Our aim is to be at the forefront of both theoretical and practical developments on the Semantic Web not only by developing theories and models, but also by building concrete applications, for a variety of domains and user communities, including KMi and the Open University itself.