E-STADIUM: REAL-TIME GAME STATISTICS, HIGHLIGHTS, AND NTERTAINMENT

摘要

Purdue football e-Stadium has garnered significant media attention by delivering interactive content that users want to receive during live-game attendance. Students, faculty, and staff have worked together for the 2005-2006 season to implement many new features releasing one new feature at each home game of the '05-'06 season. It has been recognized by The Exponent as, "The ultimate football experience", and gained further exposure in a PurdueSports.com article, e-Stadium: Fans have the game in the palms of their hands and a Cedar Rapids Gazette article, Hold a Jumbotron in palm of hand. In today's economy, access to information through the use of mobile devices like PDA's, Tablet PC's and cell phones are becoming more useful by the increase in wireless network availability - both private and public. Experiments like e-Stadium demonstrate how to develop and prototype new systems and applications in a variety of areas. Obviously, systems such as e-Stadium can be used in similar sporting events such as basketball, tennis, baseball, and many others to provide information and entertainment associated with the games such as player bios, past and current player statistics and game statistics, video replays and a variety of other sports-related information. Furthermore, the ideas and the fundamentals of a system such as e-Stadium could easily translate into other communication areas where a mix of real-time and stored information would enhance an information space or an experience.