Non-Web Technologies
Technologies that can be linked to LAD data, such as electronic schedulers on Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) or virtual reality displays are limited to those that are linked toLAD data.
Abstract
This workshop comprised thirteen participants from nine countries, of whom eight had developed and/or undertaken surveys supported by non-web technologies. There is a long list of technologies but this paper will focus mostly on survey applications of ‘LADs’—Location/time Aware Devices—such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and mobile telephone technologies. In addition, this paper covered, to some extent, technologies that are used to support or supplement LADs, such as dead reckoning systems, accelerometers, and electronic systems for vehicle identification and toll collection. The paper would have liked to include computing developments, especially mobile computing, more broadly in the discussion, but within the time available it was necessary to limit the paper to those that can be linked to LAD data, such as electronic schedulers on Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) or virtual reality displays. Computer-Aided-Self-Administered Interviews (CASI) are close in concept to Web-based methods but not included in this paper. However, this paper does include the use of the Web and Internet for data transmission for obtaining feedback from participants in LAD-supported surveys.