Software I found extremely useful: 1. Mendeley.com – changed the way I organised my research papers. Integrates nicely into texnic 2. http://www.texniccenter.org/ – the only way to write research papers! The learning curve is a bit steep, but you’ll never regret it. I’m sure MS word can do this stuff nowadays, but I’ve learns the hard way and now it’s simple as pie 🙂

MyHalo allows you to control your privacy – by selecting which information you share with an ODISS display.

All systems go – now to get the necessary permission to run trials ASAP!

From Wikipedia “Sentiment analysis or opinion mining refers to the application of natural language processing, computational linguistics, and text analytics to identify and extract subjective information in source materials.” Sentiment analysis is used in the MyHalo.org framework to connect a Twitter user’s timeline to an ODISS deployment – that is, meta data describing the content on the display. If you tweet “I Love Beer” and a beer advert exists on the display, this personalises the display.

I am currently waiting for ethics approcal for running trials for my research – an ODISS and MyHalo deployment. I am hoping this will not take longer than a couple of weeks (the ethics committee meet in every fortnight) – and I am hoping to clear the line first time around.

MyHalo – the app for the iPhone and iPad has been launched in the App Store. Now you can deploy the Open Digital Signage System and have users interact with MyHalo via their mobile devices! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myhalo/id455574720?mt=8

I finally got MyHalo submitted into the App Store. Built using Red Foundry, and upoaded using the Application Loader, it’s now waiting for review.

I am making good progress on ODISS – read more here: http://genusproject.org/odiss ODISS is an open source digital signage system that integrates with Myhalo.org for user customisation and personalisation of digital displays.

You can read more about it here: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5716771&queryText%3D5716771 Traditional public display systems have yet to reach their full potential when providing content to a variety of users from a diverse backgrounds, most notably, those able to understand a language other than that of the public display system in front of them. In this paper we propose a framework for content translation on public display systems. This system allows users to request for an application using their mobile device, and subsequently