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Introduction to Mediascapes

Jo Reid - Hewlett Packard Laboratories

general overview

later a taster of a pirates game originally for a tech bear for school children 12 - 14 yrs

trading game - simple demo

ipaqs and aquapacs

authoring tools
publishing platrofrm
experience design
user trials

what is a mediascape?

combination of physical object and digital experience
media triggered by user context

location is the primary context here - but could be otherwase

eg heart rate could go up and that could trigger an event

2001 - 2002 4d experience

1st gen soundscape authoring
walk in the wired woods

sounds associated with pictures used ultrasonics proximity sensors e.g stepping on a floor tile triggers a sounds

Team pilot
aggreation of movements of the people using ultrasonics flew a space ship on a monitor
using peoples movement as a mouse

Mobile Bristol

pervassive mobile computing
consumer experiences
context based services
user value experiments
research test bed
emerging tech

Architecture

desktop authoring tool

produces xml

output to a page that runs on the ipaq

client app runs on any wince device

Mobile Bristol Authoring Tools

supports:

Audio
Adobe Flash
HTML
Maps

maps continue to be difficult lots of different types of data will do a mapping workshop during the lab

Map systems are different in different coutnries

SK Blast theory were here in the summer and have a collection of maps for the area.

(See Jo Walsh the geo spatial cartel

Interactions
- point and click
- scripting
Sensors
- GPS, Indoor Positioning, IR Beacons, RF Beacons
- Sensorbus
  - custom hardware
  - sensors for heart rate, light, sound, pressure
http://www.sciencescope.co.uk

Experience Trials

Educational role playing game
Situated Audio play
Located digital stories
location aware heritage
digital street games

Riot1831!

sounds and stories of riot in bristol in 1831 brought
1831 bristol protest against reform act
big riot city center destroyed
eavesdropping on conversations from 1831
sounds of swords and horses etc
takes user back to 1831..

medium only as good as the content
they had good scripts
dedicated space - square etc.
included transcripts from the trials of the conspirators
technology wasn't very precise
very short segments recorded
133 segments
54 regions in the square
as you entered the region it would play a sound file
as you left it fades out
randomised - different experience for each user
values in 2 phenomona s
some people like synchronisation between users
some people like to have personal experiences
professional actors for scripts
background sounds
holds inexperienced users in the piece
audio only piece
most people liked it and got imersed in the stories
control wasn't so good
some wanted images - imagining the space
some people said they wanted to see as well
- very split
- slightly gendered - 'check this Jo'
- women more likely to want sound only
- men more likely to want images too

Savannah

computers in classroom
overlay savannah (lions etc.)over a playing field
players have to hunt and survive
get to understand what living on the savannah will be like

took long time to organise
lots of organisations collaborating
BBC provided background images
Nesta future lab did project management
ran for a week
educational center in bristol
6 groups of kids at a time
half day each
testing between classroom and playing field
kids were humans in the class room
3 games where they could be lions in the field
ie marking territory
then they could see where they had been
hunting in dry and wet seasons
can hunt a gazelle by yourself
need to co-operate to take down a buffalo

mobile bristol front end
nottingham provdied a server back end
you would need a server for any game etc.

we are not planning a multi user game for the lab

Scape the Hood

kqed digital story telling festival
a walk around san francisco
learn about its history and culture
170 people
publicised in arts community in SF
3 different projects and experiences
- Project Artaud
  - bringing the buildings history into the world
- land and history
  - history of the people
  - representatives of illoni
  - explored sounds from 1850
  - californian library of natural sounds
  - mission creek followed the left of the block
  - built over recently
  - but they are there underground
  - relationship between what is on the surface and its historical past
- Mission Village Market
  - was about to be built over
  - now it has gone
  - could here it as if it was there or as if it wasnt there
  - juxtaposition between the present and the future
  - now reversed!
the medium can be quite compelling

Experience Design

what are we learning about experience design?
can track people and their useage
bit like tracking page impressions - place impressions

What did we learn?

technology assets
patent filings
experience design expertise
worldwide author groupl
confirmation that users like it
published papers too

2005-Present

developed 3rd gen publishing platform
- wholly HP owned
- better engineered
- web service integration
strategic trials
- usa exposure
- commercial pilots

HP Labs Mediascape Platform

editor
emulator
map aligner
mediascape script
client

New authoring capabilities

New editor
- drag and drop/scripting
simple object model for scripting
- properties, methods, events
new media types
- video, scheduler, sequence, slideshow
- scheduler allows you to have optional layers depending on how fast you are moving
- base layers + other layers of media
temporal events
- timeline, ticker
richer logic
- if/then switch, while for loops
variables only available in the xml layer
hoping you can do more stuff in the editor
now c sharp underneath
hooks out to the world

extensions

Plugin architecture
allows framework to be extended
add sensors for different environments
opportunity for experimentation
sdk under development
thinking about open sourcing it..

Mediascape Web Services

experience creators
- authoring tools
- map library
- Distribution
- Retail
experience providers
- localisation
- logging
- CRM integration
- device management
- branding
consumers
- Discovery
- Download
- my mediascape
- reccomendations
- forums

Mediascape web service APis

Availability

New toolkit will be released later this year
free for non-commercial use
create-a-scape
- http://www.create-a-scape.org.uk
aim to grow community web site to allow author to share experiences
- tracking school uses

Walk to the Falls

Park service objective
design
in Yosemite Valley
will talk about how we created this and others
design, scripting, production

Tower of London

fast track 3 months
used for a case study
http://tinyurl.com/y2ly5z
alreay have audio tours
not so good for kids
at the moment they don't have control over the media
have to rewrite everything
everything on mediascape can be changed daily or hourly
stream data to it
they wanted to be able to author
wanted to make games
did design workshops
prototyped some ideas in 1.5 days
then they could produce content and plug it in to the framework

radio receiver carried by the guards
guards carry pingers
if the kids get pinged they go to jail
good for the warders
can present far more stories
enhance the visitor experience
addresses different learning styles
the pingers made it much more interactive
the kids liked the frisson of that
there is a pinger that sends out an id number
the receiver picks up the id and sends it to the ipaq
you can also use infrared sensors - more line of sight

Links

'Jo can you put them in here?'

Questions

can you have sub regions?
JR yes

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 *** custom hardware
 *** sensors for heart rate, light, sound, pressure
-* http://www,sceincescope.co.uk
+* http://www.sciencescope.co.uk
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