Archive for Dynamic Web

Plott.me

// December 20th, 2008 // No Comments » // Dynamic Web, Location

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Plott.me is a location based platform for telling stories.

It used the Google Street View API to embed audio tagged with location. As you navigate through the Street View interface, audio files play based on your location on the map. The audio piece delivers the narrative while also guiding you through the map.

The experience becomes more engaging in a Street View interface as we were able to control what the user sees at any particular time in the audio. So the user is able to view the an object in the right context. It simulates the experience of a real guided tour. We took an existing Time Square audio tour to demonstrate our concept.

I worked with Thomas Chan, Mitch Said and Kristin O’Friel in the project. The project was showcased during ITP Winter Show ‘09

Project url: http://plott.me

Resembuild

// March 29th, 2008 // No Comments » // Alternate Reality Games, Communication Lab, Dynamic Web, Introduction to Computational Media, Location, Mobile Media, Physical Computing

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Resembuild is a mobile phone photo collage powered by human intelligence.

The project asks users to reconstruct an image from a series of abstract fragments, using their mobile phone camera. The image pieces are printed on numbered cards (and made available via a custom phone application), and participants are required to take a picture that resembles the one they are given, and submit it via multimedia message (MMS) to a designated e-mail address. They can either find or (re)construct the image from the world around them, and are encouraged to be as accurate (and inventive) as possible.

The final resulting collage – recreating a popular video game character – is showcased online.

It was interesting to see the elements used by the Resembuilders to recreate the image.

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For this project I collaborated with Mitch Said.

Project url: http://mitchsaid.com/resembuild