Tag Archives: mobile media

Using location data to predict where people will be, when they will be there, and who they will be there with

Never mind the increasingly ubiquitous surveillance-by-smartphone of where people are. Next up is keeping track of where they will be. University of Illinois researchers Long Vu, Quang Do, and Klara Nahrstedt have prototyped a system that analyzes the movements of … Continue reading

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Ambient storytelling resources

This post contains starting points for researching and developing “ambient” storytelling and interaction systems (i.e., stories or games that take place in the background, rather than traditional attention-focusing media artifacts such as movies or console video games). Continue reading

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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. Continue reading

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