Group: Luke Best, Danny Board, Christos Neocleous, Ian Bannon, Ollie Griffiths
I have been racking my brains about this project and thought of a couple basic ideas on what we could do.
I did a similar project about Augmented reality last year – Called the Augmented Reality Tour Guide.
This was a prototype of a history/tour guide, using an Iphone at Plymouth Hoe. The idea was you scan the area with your Iphone and it overlays historic photos on top of the real time landmarks. My prototype presentation video is here if you want to look!
http://lukebest.co.uk/idat204-artourguide/final.swf
Anyway, back to this project – the brief states:
“You will develop prototypes set in a digital IoT ecosystem where sociality is extended from people to space that actively contribute to the increase of knowledge and creativity, through their everyday interaction. This needs to embed and reveal the immaterial aspects and imformation in the space, past present and future.”
Bearing this in mind here are my initial ideas;
1. A real life Facebook/Online messaging system in the Devonport area – (Devonbook as a cheesy working name)
Possibly using the Layars AR technology – the idea would be to create virtual message boards or comments attached to buildings in Devonport. A participating building has its own thread and QR code outside and you scan it join it and leave comments. This could integrate with social media to keep you updated when other people comment on the building. This would after a while create an online diary or timeline about what the people in the area think. Given time, you could also scroll through comments history to see comments about what was there years ago and what people said about it.
The message board/comments box would appear as an overlay on a real time video feed from a smart phone.
2. Devonport ‘Mood walls’
This idea comes from a video I watched on Youtube, which is a lighting project based in Hong Kong where the light changes based on movement past the wall…
My idea is using a similar technology, these walls would simply be walls covered in LED lights, with 2 QR codes at either side. The one on the left is inside a big thumbs up, and the one on the right inside a thumbs down. You simply scan whichever one you want depending on if you are enjoying your time in Devonport and the board changes colour depending on the total number of likes and dislikes, reflecting the happiness of people travelling through the space.
I’m not really sure If I’m missing the mark on this, as the brief is quite open. We are going to Devonport in our new groups on Friday so we will bounce a few ideas around !
