New Media Practices in the Urban Context
by admin on November 12th, 2006
Translocations 1: New media practices in the urban context ::17th and 24th November 2006 :: Seminar Room, Sarai-CSDS :: Facilitatedby Tapio Mäkelä, researcher and artist in residence at Sarai.
This workshop looks at new media practices in urban contexts. Theintroductory session will take place at SARAI/CSDS seminar room onFriday, November 17th 11.00-13.00/14.00-16.00. Second session onNovember 24th, […]
Urban Modular Furniture
by admin on November 12th, 2006
Enzi is a set of 114 identical multifunctional objects developed by Austrian architects PPAG.
The modules can be arranged and rearranged according to the situation or need and may be used for sitting, playing, sleeping or as decorative building blocks. They come in different colors - pink, green and blue.
Enzi was designed to be used at […]
Panamap
by admin on October 23rd, 2006
Urban Mapping produces multi-layered tourist maps called Panamap. These maps aim at improving the tourist navigation in a urban space by viewing only relevant information.
Images are interlaced by alternating horizontal strips from each. The resulting compound image is calibrated to a specially designed polymer lens substrate. By rotating the map, the angle of viewing is changed and one of the resulting three layers can be viewed
Relation to my thesis: I am wondering in what ways this layered view improves the spatial navigation. This is a good inspiration for an experiment that would display uncertainty (quality/timeliness) of the location data in a layered manner and evaluated if it improves the awareness or the navigation.
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Pamphlet Architecture 29 - Call for Entries
by admin on October 20th, 2006
Publish your work in Pamphlet Architecture 29!
To promote and foster the development and circulation of architectural ideas, Pamphlet Architecture is again offering an opportunity for architects, designers, theorists, urbanists, and landscape architects to publish their designs, manifestos, ideas, theories, ruminations, hopes, and insights for the future of the designed and built world. With far-ranging topics […]
GPS System to Raise the Confidence in the Ability to Travel
by admin on October 11th, 2006
GPS systems has been used for several years by blinds and visually impaired people to raise their confidence in the ability to travel. Some coin it as “one of the most significant changes to a blind person’s mobility“. GPS complements existing aids. It could never replace a guide dog or white cane. Indeed, GPS can’t help getting around construction or the two-by-four sticking off the back of a truck. However, it fills in the blanks for a blind traveler on what they can find in an unfamiliar town. An example is Humanware’s Trekker. Input is done with an integrated tactile keyboard. Directions are given by a synthetic voice. Audio output was a design challenge, because blind people use their hearing to pick up subtle environmental sounds, and they also use high frequencies to detect surfaces (echolocation). A video of the Trekker is available here.
Update: Technology review has an article on Georgia Tech’s System for Wearable Audio Navigation (SWAN). (via Anthony Townsend)
Relation to my thesis: It seems that a navigation system, more than delivering directions, provide confidence to their users (not exclusively blind people) in unfamiliar environments. Humans use “echolocation” to detect their environment.
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