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Tracker Games - an iPhone/iPad app for practicing tracking skills
In the beta-testing stage now.
The idea is that you can learn a great deal about what the subject is doing simply from the pattern of footprints left in the ground. This is separate from, and in addition to, what you learn from close examination of all the micro-scale disturbances, often called pressure releases.
Suppose you are following a track and the prints are a steady left, right, left, right, left, right. Then, you come to one where the left print is angled sharply to the right. What happened? It might be a turn. It might be a pause to look to the right. It might be any number of things. The placement of the next print will probably answer that question.
Other things will affect the placement of the prints. Is the subject carrying something? Are they injured? Did they do something while moving? Learn to recognize how each activity or condition affects the pattern. The app includes over a hundred flashcards with patterns for different activities.
Additionally, it includes multiple variations of the popular Kim's Game for training vision, perception, and memory. Start with common, recognizable objects. Those you will probably learn to remember by naming them. Progress to flowers. Those will specifically train the nonverbal side of your memory. Advance, finally, to footprints, a nonverbal recognition skill obviously applicable to our craft. All of the prints were hand-drawn by the author from photographs, so they are ones you are likely to encounter in the field.
Tracker Games - an iPhone/iPad app for practicing tracking skills
In the beta-testing stage now.
The idea is that you can learn a great deal about what the subject is doing simply from the pattern of footprints left in the ground. This is separate from, and in addition to, what you learn from close examination of all the micro-scale disturbances, often called pressure releases.
Suppose you are following a track and the prints are a steady left, right, left, right, left, right. Then, you come to one where the left print is angled sharply to the right. What happened? It might be a turn. It might be a pause to look to the right. It might be any number of things. The placement of the next print will probably answer that question.
Other things will affect the placement of the prints. Is the subject carrying something? Are they injured? Did they do something while moving? Learn to recognize how each activity or condition affects the pattern. The app includes over a hundred flashcards with patterns for different activities.
Additionally, it includes multiple variations of the popular Kim's Game for training vision, perception, and memory. Start with common, recognizable objects. Those you will probably learn to remember by naming them. Progress to flowers. Those will specifically train the nonverbal side of your memory. Advance, finally, to footprints, a nonverbal recognition skill obviously applicable to our craft. All of the prints were hand-drawn by the author from photographs, so they are ones you are likely to encounter in the field.
This app is entirely free from advertising. It requires iOS 14.0 or above.
Privacy Statement: Tracker Games collects no personal information of any kind. Nothing is ever transmitted over the internet about you, your mobile device, or anything you do with the app. It does not use any third-party libraries, so your privacy is 100% protected.
Concept, programming, artwork, and development by Eric Hjelmfelt (a.k.a. "The Elm") Copyright 2021.
Comments, corrections, suggestions and all other feedback would be most welcome.
Privacy Statement: Tracker Games collects no personal information of any kind. Nothing is ever transmitted over the internet about you, your mobile device, or anything you do with the app. It does not use any third-party libraries, so your privacy is 100% protected.
Concept, programming, artwork, and development by Eric Hjelmfelt (a.k.a. "The Elm") Copyright 2021.
Comments, corrections, suggestions and all other feedback would be most welcome.
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