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iPad for research - one size fits all?

After last year’s experience with taking iPad to the field I am finally getting around to reporting back on the 4 week long field research experience with iPad this summer, when we were able to equip our whole field school team (the faculty, a graduate student TA, three undergraduate students and myself) with [...]

We are taking iPad to the field again

For the last several weeks I have been busy preparing for this summer’s Sea Island Field School. I am very grateful to Rich Holeton and Makoto Tsuchitani to have given me the opportunity to provide every student of the group with an iPad2 this year. Building on last year’s experience and with this year’s project [...]

iPad 3G and GIS - A Report From The Field

For the last month I had the opportunity to test the new iPad 3G as research tool under field conditions. The field site lies within the US, but some locations are remote (see below). For this particular project I was mainly interested in the use of the iPad as a location aware device. Below are [...]