A common criticism of location-based mobile services is that they could as easily take away from the urban experience as enhance it. But rather than inhibiting people's sensory awareness of the urban landscape the activity of public authoring actually stimulated it.
Many of the trial participants reported that using Urban Tapestries triggered a new engagement with their environment, “It changed my experience of my environment - without consciously trying, I became much more aware of things around me.”
What kinds of applications of public authoring can be created that promote and develop this augmentation of spatial awareness?
What kinds of personal devices and interfaces can be created that play with and respond to this sensory stimulation?
What kinds of architectonic devices and interfaces can be embedded into our future environments that allow us to devise additional ways of engaging with our environments?
Posted by Giles Lane at February 13, 2004 05:31 PM