MJW - The Mobile Journalist's Workstation

Columbia University Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Laboratory
Columbia University
Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab

Objective

The Mobile Journalist's Workstation (MJW) is a cooperative research project between the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab in Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Center for New Media Media in Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. The MJW uses augmented reality to present multimedia news stories (sound, text, image, video) within the spatial context of the surroundings in which they occurred. Our current prototype was used to tell the story of the student riots on Columbia's Campus in 1968.

Software and Hardware Technology

A description of research on Mobile Augmented Reality Systems, used to prototype the Mobile Journalist's Workstation.

Content for a 3D News Story

Some of the material used to prepare the story.

Publications

Pavlik, J., and Feiner, S. Implications of the Mobile Journalist's Workstation for Print Media, The Future of Print Media: A Virtual Symposium on the Digital Transformation of Printing and Publishing, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Kent State University, Fall 1998. (HTML)

Acknowledgements

Research on the mobile augmented reality testbed used to implement the Mobile Journalist's Workstation was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research under Contract N00014-97-1-0838, the National Tele-Immersion Initiative ; hardware and software gifts from Intel, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs and Microsoft; the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Computers and Information Systems under Contract NYSSTF-CAT-92-053; and NSF Grant CDA-92-23009.