by Yulia Besplemennova(z3406397)

Intro to Interactive Media ArtsConcept Pitch, iteration 2

Changing people’s behaviour

Connecting social aspect of the city to physical

Stimulating exploration and rethinking relations to the spaces

Novel way of navigation

Concept №2 Good Vibrations

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+with your comment

or musicAdd it to the map

Share it!

~1km ~500m ~100m ~5m

Meanwhile in the city...

20 people enjoyed sunset at your suggested place!

Feedback?

Changing map

According to the seasons, time of the day and weather...

What is needed

website to suggest placesGPS locations databaseaudio storage (partnership with iTunes =))

Database:

access to GPS dataaccess to acceletometer datavibration outputsound outputconnection to the database

Application:

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Timeline

Weeks 10-11

Interactionprototype development

Application development

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

Month 2Month 3Month 4

first mock-up sketch

install Android emulator - try the sketchget Android phone - access the sensors data and vibro/sound outputstry inputs-outputs with Processing in the city

change the sketch for the Android - tryimprove! - try - improve!

assign sound to places around COFA - try

have fun!

build the website and database

connect application to database

alpha testing - troubleshooting

Month 5-6

Eventually

beta test with public envolved - troubleshooting

release

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Concept Statement

In my work I got inspired by the Situationist movement and their relation to the cityspace, especially the derive practice, and some of other concepts including the city and the interaction with it. (For example the GPS-drawing idea and different ways of its realization, The Drift example showed in the class). Thinking of different ways to navigate in the city I remembered the old techniques of dowsing which are claimed to help finding the water or minerals under the ground. And adding the possibility of interaction with the phone I’ve chosen the pendulum dowsing as a metaphor. Moving from the first concepts of walking along the random shape in the city drawn by other participant, I decided to add more meaning to the activity and also a bit of more playful element. So I got to the final concept of using the phone to “sense” the city and find places which have special value for its inhabitants.

“Good Vibrations” is an application allowing people to share and find nice places in the city and stories connected to them and experience the city in a new way. It consists of in-phone application and a database of places suggested by the users and audio-files stored with them.

Citizens are invited to share their places through the same application or the website. In case of using the application person has to be present at the space which he wants to add. The phone will store the GPS position and add the comment or music to this place. To find other people’s

suggestions one has to go to the city and use phone to search. After starting the application users have to sway the phone as a pendulum and walk with it. Phone will define user’s position using GPS and find the nearest place from database. Participant is navigated by the vibrations of the phone, which become stronger as person gets closer to the place. As soon as the location is reached the audio file associated to it plays, revealing the story or the music connected to this place in mind of other citizen. This “social map” can be changing with the seasons, weather and time of the day to bring the best experiences matching the current conditions in the city.

This application helps to connect the social dimension of the city to the physical space showing that the places include not only the “bricks and mortar” but people inhabiting them. The selected way of navigation takes user’s attention away from the phone screen bringing it back to the city. On their way around people can see new places and try to guess what can be interesting there and where are they are guided to. Mainly they can share others’ experiences and see the city with the different eyes. But besides that they are getting their own experience of the city while searching for other’s places. They may get disoriented or even lost on the way, which brings back the need of the navigation skills and exploration spirit which are forgotten with the appearance of GPS-enabled devices with the maps of the entire world.