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Mobile Bristol Toolkit Download the non-commercial version here. Contact us for commercial use. The Mobile Bristol Centre was a programme investigating how mobile devices and pervasive information technology can be used to enhance the ways in which residents and visitors experience and interact with their physical environment and with each other in urban and public spaces. Imagine a digital landscape overlaying the physical world. As we walk around this landscape, we can tap into the digital sounds, sights and interactions that are positioned in the landscape and activated by our presence and actions. The digital landscape is formed from a dynamic and overlapping set of mediascapes which are context-sensitive combinations of digital media and interactions created and deployed by various authors. The project has created a toolkit, which provides a digital canvas over the physical landscape onto which digital experiences can be painted and new commercial opportunities can be explored. As people walk through the physical environment, a diverse range of digital media experiences augment the ambiance and bring these spaces alive. The project had three main threads. Each thread informs, drives and enables the others.

What is the mapping between the topology of the physical space, as revealed through map annotation functionalities, and the semantic structure of the interaction space, generated by text-based communication?

The Aware platform is a design tool and a production environment. It allows for collective publication and syndication of mobile media. This schematic illustrates the different stages in the interaction-system flow:

The taxi is outfitted with an interactive touch screen that displays video, animations, music, and information triggered by an onboard GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver which allows the displayed artwork to change depending on where the taxi is in the city. With the combination of the media/gps technology, the mobile environment and the passenger/audience inside the cab – the eleven artists in teletaxi are offered a unique set of possibilities for showing their work - both technically and thematically.

Mediascapes are mobile, location–based experiences that incorporate digital media with the sights, sounds, and textures of the world around you. A mediascape blends digital images, video, audio and interactions with the physical landscape. Games, guided walks and tours, and destinations are among the mediascapes created to date.

Overview Blue Puddle is an interactive online mapping tool developed by an interdisciplinary team of students at the University of Michigan. The Blue Puddle software takes advantage of the Internet´s distributed authorship capabilities to create maps that draw on users´ collective memory and subjective experience of a city. These maps foster the emergence of stories about the city that are more rich than any single author could create.

Welcome to our friends network and mobile community Playtxt is a new kind of online community. playtxt is global, location based and mobile. Who What Anywhere is a mantra to help you interactive more easily with your circle of friends while you discover and share local information on your mobile phone, across the world. It recognises 200000 places in 3527 regions in 238 countries. Use playtxt on the web, by SMS and soon by mobile using our free J2ME based location based instant messenger which you can download to your mobile. Sign up now, its completely free!

Pervasive games are a radically new game form that extends gaming experiences out into the physical world. To achieve a high quality interactive experience for these games, new technologies to support the creation of new compelling forms of content will be explored by this consortium. Brief Intro Four game types are currently being investigated under IPerG: Crossmedia Games - bridging the gap between different media channels and game spaces Socially Adaptable Games - exploring how pervasive games can fit into (and transform) social environments Enhanced Reality Live Role-Playing - enhanced experiences through technology City As Theatre - artistic games that take place online and on the streets.

A revolutionary multi-player, multi-site game and arts space to be played across all five cities. Players use their own bodies to send balls of projected light across the playing space, aiming for goals representing the other cities. Entirely interactive, it's a competition to see which city has the least light balls in their square when the time runs out. Designed to be aesthetically beautiful and great fun to play and watch, games are a minute long and run throughout the night. Just turn up and play, or get your team together in advance...

Rough Guide Maps These guides are a series of fantastic interactive maps, produced in conjunction with the premier travel publisher Rough Guides. These PDA versions of The Rough Guide Maps allow you to quickly find all the top tourist spots and key attractions with ease. Information on the city and its sights are displayed with links to superb photographs and map locations. All in a intuitive easy to use interface. If you're travelling to any of the major cities in the world be sure you don't leave home without one of these guides on your PDA. Click on the left to select your chosen city. Further cities will be released over the coming months.

The premise for this workshop was to bring members of the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) community together with researchers and practitioners from the fields of urban planning, architecture, and design, who are interested in similar issues, in an effort to critically examine the interrelationship of technology and the urban environment. 

The trolleys have been wired up with GPS receivers which constantly pass location information to the PDAs. The PDAs then check their databases for location information and play the appropriate audio over the trolleys’ PA systems. Drivers are not required to interface with the system at all, and the historical tour plays automatically.