[NSRCA-discussion] iPhone as judging aid

[richard wallace]

It's completely possible - I work on a software project, and a few years ago
as part of his masters degree work one of my developers wrote a program to
go on a PDA that would allow the judges to enter scores using the touch
screen; as soon as the flight was finished the judge could review the
scores, and then send them back wirelessly to the scoring computer.

It got him and his grad school team an 'A'; they got through the prototype
stage, but never turned it into a real product. No reason it couldn't
though... if you could beat the logistics and training issues.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Atwood, Mark <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com>wrote:

>  Judges are not allowed to use reference materials per the rulebook.
> But as a scoring device…we’ve talk a lot over the years about how that could
> be done.  It would certainly be nice if there was a way to avoid all the
> double entry of scores.
>
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> -M
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> nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] *On Behalf Of *steve hannah
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:17 PM
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> *Subject:* [NSRCA-discussion] iPhone as judging aid
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> What do you guys think about using the iphone as a judge aid?  What if I
> pulled my iPhone out and used the inclinometer app (i like "clinometer",
> very easy to see the numbers in the daylight) to aid in judging 45's and
> lines in general?  Would the fliers I am judging revolt?
>
> I also plan on having the rulebook accessible as well.
>
> There was talk a while back about using it as a scoring tool, that would be
> great but someone needs to write the app....
>
> You won't see me doing this till next year, looks like my season is over
> due to my son's wedding in a couple weeks and then work travel on top of the
> PHX contest.
>
> Anyway, food for thought.
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