American Music
“American Music” is an iPhone and Android application that uses contextual geolocation data as a kind of musical notation, creating a generative soundtrack to accompany everything from cross-country trips to short drives to the mall.
“…what does it mean for a cybertext to be experienced via a mobile device? Traditional forms…”
“…what does it mean for a cybertext to be experienced via a mobile device? Traditional forms specify the syntagm because the possibilities of the real world are unquantifiable. Text-messaging, however, blurs the boundaries between a hermetic narrative space and the unpredictable logics of the real world. A cybertext on a mobile device is neither specifying a syntagm nor a complete paradigm. Instead, it elicits the specific creativity of the human consciousness interacting with its environment, temporarily organizing how reality, whatever its subjective nature, whatever preexisting simulacra exist, might be experienced.”
Image Mapping and Tracking for AR Apps
If we’re going to tell stories using AR, I suspect that we’ll be looking for solutions that break free of the need for pre-set glyphs, routers or other equipment.
Adrian Hon: Turning the Whole World into Disneyland
Adrian Hon’s company, Six to Start, won Best in Show at this week’s SXSW Web Awards for their project, Telling…
Pattie Maes @TED: Unveiling the Sixth Sense
The last gestural interface demo I saw involved about a dozen precision cameras, several computer systems,…
Location-Based Ambient Storytelling
A proposal for a directed research project that seeks to identify and implement a range of context and location-based storytelling techniques.
Our cell phones, ourselves
Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase’s investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him…
Mobile Experience Lab Projects – Summer 08
Cross-media whiz Jim Monroe has recently been working as a consultant and project coordinator at OCAD’s…