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The Locative Viscosity Project - Lily Shirvanee

Understanding people's patterns of use may reveal important, possibly hitherto unknown, characteristics of the societies that make up our cities. Just as visible urban infrastructures, such as roads and freeways, are iteratively used, and then designed to develop appropriate routes, the repetitious sequences of less perceptible social communication events greatly shape out urban environments, and it is important to grasp how they are evolving.

In an attempt to support the needs and preferences of urban dwellers, with the aim of fostering the development of publicly available, privately secure locative networks, The Locative Viscosity Project proposes a storymapping study that tracks'locative viscosities' in public urban areas. The Locative Viscosity Project will use data from mobile devices, such as the HP iPAQ, and HP's Mediascape software to create maps of links locative activities, such as movement patterns and concentration of activities through time.