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Topiary is a new tool for location enhanced applications used to streamline interaction with people, places, or things. A high level of expertise is required to build these location enhanced applications. Topiary is used for prototyping these applications. Topiary will let designers build a map that models locations of the items in the map, people, places, or things. Designers may use Topiary to depict scenarios, run storyboards describing interaction, and use the storyboards on mobile devices. This area of computing, location enhanced applications, has been an huge area of active research for more than a decade, opening new possibilities for human to computer interaction. Many people believe that location enhanced/ based computing will have a huge growth in the near future. The engineers of Topiary believe that the time to develop the computing tools is now. One of the examples of location based software is the use of 911 in the United States. With a phone call, the person in distress can be found nearly instantly. Topiary can be used in place of present prototyping tools because of the enhanced mapping models. A prototyping tool needs to make it simple for designers to model locations and let them explore the location quickly without having to deal with low level issues. Topiary also specifies location enhanced behaviors, such as sensing the proper location on the map, such as a floor plan when inside a building or a city map when out of doors. Topiary can be used to test and analyze a design by the designer quickly, instead of the traditional method of testing graphical interfaces with real end users. Topiary supports all of the common features of other prototyping software except for tagging and resource allocation. The Topiary system left those features out due to the fact that those features are more for internal computation and not user application. The features shared with other applications are as follows: Location status, simply displaying someone’s or Finders for a specific or nearest person, place, or thing Active Maps, dynamically updated maps that show the Triggers, arbitrary functions that activate when Wayfinding, textual or visual descriptions of how to get Back To Tree Nursery References Related Information |
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