Beginning with the fall semester, ASU began offering a first-of-its-kind, GPS-enabled, self-guided walking tour to Tempe campus visitors. Using a hand-held computer and global positioning satellite technology, visitors can see and hear content about the campus when entering dozens of GPS hot spots located across the campus.

ASU developed the tour in collaboration with OnPoint Systems, a provider of content for audio tour programs. Tour participants use Dell’s Axim hand-held computer, plus a receiver and wireless headset, to access the GPS-enabled program. As tour-goers approach a building or landmark with a corresponding GPS hot spot, an audio program provides perspective on the history or importance of the site to student life and career choices.

OnPoint Systems produced the audio tour content using students and professional voice talent to give visitors a unique, insiders’ perspective of the university, student life and the metropolitan Phoenix area. The company plans to market its tour technology to other universities and will use ASU’s program as a pilot project.

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ASU alum Megan Keenan ’04 takes part in a demonstration of the university's self-guided walking tour.

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