Souvenirs

• Souvenirs (Oct 8, 2008) SouvenirsSrc-Oct8-2008.zip: Revised prototype Souvenirs. This version runs as a distributed system over a home network allowing:

• re-established the mobile device RFID, but its a hack:
  • looks at the RFID Textbox instead of the mobile machine checkbox to see if it should use it
  • doesn't check to see if the remote is actually there; likley will fail if its not online.
  • above is easy to fix, just have to do it.

• Souvenirs (Oct 5, 2008) SouvenirsSrc-Oct5-2008.zip: Revised prototype Souvenirs. This version runs as a distributed system over a home network allowing:

• Souvenirs (Oct 5, 2008) : Revised prototype Souvenirs. This version runs as a distributed system over a home network allowing:

• Souvenirs (Oct 5, 2008) SouvenirsSrc-Oct5-2008.zip: Revised prototype Souvenirs. This version runs as a distributed system over a home network allowing:

• Souvenirs (Oct 5, 2008) Demos:SouvenirsSrc-Oct5-2008.zip: Revised prototype Souvenirs. This version runs as a distributed system over a home network allowing:

• Souvenirs (Oct 5, 2008) : Revised prototype Souvenirs. This version runs as a distributed system over a home network allowing:

• Souvenirs (Oct 5, 2008) SouvenirsSrc-Oct5-2008.zip: Revised prototype Souvenirs. This version runs as a distributed system over a home network allowing:
  • Bug fixes
  • If photos are on the local machine, it does not copy them i.e., uses them directly
  • two size thumbnails are cached to increase performance and looks of images
  • a wiiMote can now be used to control the slide show
  • various user interface improvements.

Older versions of Souvenirs

• Souvenirs (16.6.2008) : Download: Revised prototype Souvenirs. This version runs as a distributed system over a home network allowing:

• Nunes, M., Greenberg, S. & Neustaedter, C. (2008) Sharing Digital Photographs in the Home through Physical Mementos, Souvenirs, and Keepsakes. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - ACM DIS'08. (Cape Town, South Africa), ACM Press, pages 250-260, February 25-27.

• Nunes, M., Greenberg, S. & Neustaedter, C. (2008)

Sharing Digital Photographs in the Home through Physical Mementos, Souvenirs, and Keepsakes. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - ACM DIS'08. (Cape Town, South Africa), ACM Press, pages 250-260, February 25-27.

• Detailed setup and installation instructions are included in the file Installation & Setup.pdf. In short, you will need to:
  • Setup a shared folder (server).
  • Install the Shared Phidgets toolkit Shared Phidgets.
  • Connect the hardware devices (if desired) and setup the Shared Phidgets Server and Connector.
  • Install Souvenirs (Setup.exe), the default options should be fine. By default the program will install to Program Files -> GroupLab -> Souvenirs
  • A shortcut to the Souvenirs program will be placed in the Start Menu under GroupLab -> Souvenirs, and on the desktop.
  • Run Souvenirs and configure it to connect to the shared folder (server) and Shared Phidgets.
  • The Souvenirs program may use the Phidget RFID Reader (Sensor Base), Circular Touch (scroller) hardware devices, as well as a photo printer (consult manufacturers' manual/driver for installation of the photo printer).

• Download and extract the zip file.
• Run the installer (Setup.exe), the default options should be fine. By default the program will install to Program Files -> GroupLab -> Souvenirs

• Souvenirs (28.5.2008) : Download: Revised prototype Souvenirs. This version runs as a distributed system over a home network allowing:
  • Shared photo sets.
  • Souvenir linking optional.
  • Create custom items with photo printer/RFID cards.
  • Use mobile devices to discover links and transfer displayed photo sets.
• Souvenirs (19.10.2006) : Download: Initial prototype version of Souvenirs as used in the demonstration video.

• Revised prototype Souvenirs. This version runs as a distributed system over a home network.

• Initial prototype version of Souvenirs as used in the demonstration video.

• Souvenirs (28.5.2008) : Download

Digital photography has largely replaced film for the average picture-taker. This technology allows people to easily take and store numerous photos, and gift-give photos to distributed friends and relatives over the internet. Yet, digital photos have lost many of the affordances for opportunistic face to face sharing within the home.

Souvenirs is a system that attempts to situate and encourage digital photo sharing in the social setting of the home by linking photo sets to physical memorabilia. These mementos trigger memories and serve as social instruments; a person can enrich their story-telling by moving the physical memento close to their large-format television screen, and the associated photos are immediately displayed.

• A few fixes and clean-up. Used in the demonstration video.

• A few fixes and clean-up. Used in the demonstration video.

• Souvenirs (19.10.2006) : Download

1. A few fixes and clean-up. Used in the demonstration video.

• Make timing adjustment available

• Souvenirs (27.9.2006) : Download

• Souvenirs (25.9.2006) : Download

1. This is a test version, the old one behaved rather slowly with large photo sets, particularly on slower machines. This only contains the compiled program (no installer) for the time being.

• Souvenirs (1.8.2006) : Download

Bug Fixes:

• Uninstall any previous versions of the Souvenirs program.

1. Updated Shared Phidgets toolkit (Beta 2.0.1)

• Souvenirs (1.8.2006) : Download

1. Resized thumbnails (max 64*64) used in preview panel (generated when thumbnail first becomes visible)

Bug Fixes:

1. Only keeps current photo loaded in memory (fixes out of mem errors with large sets)

1. Only keeps current photo loaded in memory (fixes out of mem errors with large sets)

1. -> Only keeps current photo loaded in memory (fixes out of mem errors with large sets)

Bug Fixes:

• Souvenirs (1.8.2006) : Download

• Display list of exsisting collections on start up

• The Shared Phidgets toolkit is needed to manage the shared phidgets infrastructure. The Shared Phidgets installer is included in the Installs directory of the Souvenirs zip, or the latest version can be downloaded at the aforementioned link.

• Instructions to set up the Shared Phidgets Server and Connector can be found here and here. Note that the server name should be "tcp://(yourip):sp", as is the default when setting up the server.

• Instructions to set up the Shared Phidgets Server and Connector can be found here and . Note that the server name should be "tcp://(yourip):sp", as is the default when setting up the server.

• The Souvenirs program uses the Phidget RFID Reader and Circular Touch hardware devices.

• The Shared Phidgets toolkit is needed to manage the shared phidgets infrastructure. The Shared Phidgets installer is included in the Installs directory of the Souveniers zip, or the latest version can be downloaded at the aforementioned link.
• Instructions to set up the Shared Phidgets Server and Connector can be found at the aforementioned link. Note that the server name should be "tcp://(yourip):sp", as is the default when setting up the server.

• The Shared Phidgets toolkit is needed to manage the shared phidgets infrastructure.

• The Shared Phidgets toolkit is needed to manage the shared phidgets infrastructure.

Wishlist

• Jump to slide by selecting it from thumbnails
• Delete slides
• Make timeing adjustment available
• Meta-info for collections (Descriptive name, Description, Location, etc...) used as first slide
• Open slides in play mode
• Other media (ex. movies, webpages, etc)?

Build Instructions (Visual Studio 2005)

Hopefully this shouldn't be neccessary, but in the event that a build from source is required:

• In the extracted zip folder open the Source folder.
• Open Souvenirs.sln, build as usual. The final product is placed in the project "Souvenirs".

• Download and exctract the zip file.
• Run the installer (SouvenirsSetup.msi), the default options should be fine. By default the program will install to Program Files -> GroupLab -> Souvenirs
• A shortcut to the Souvenirs program will be placed in the Start Menu under GroupLab -> Souvenirs

Installation Instructions

Installation Instructions

• Souvenirs (31.7.2006): Download

• Souvenirs (31.7.2006): [Download -> http://cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~nunes/souvenirs/Souvenirs-31.7.2006.zip]

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