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Yulya Besplemennova
Yulya Besplemennova

This concept proposes an interactive mobile application called "Good Vibrations" that allows users to share and discover meaningful places in their city. Users can add locations to a database along with an audio file or comment. To find places, users swing their phone like a pendulum while walking, and the phone vibrates more strongly as they near locations. When a place is reached, its audio file plays, revealing stories from other citizens. This connects the social experiences of a city to its physical spaces and encourages exploration. The changing "social map" aims to stimulate new perspectives on urban environments.

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Intro to Interactive Media Arts Concept Pitch, iteration 2 by Yulia Besplemennova (z3406397)
Concept 2 Good Vibrations * Changing peoples behaviour * Connecting social aspect of the city to physical * Stimulating exploration and rethinking relations to the spaces * Novel way of navigation
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Share it! + with your comment Add it to the map or music
Meanwhile in the city... ~1km ~500m ~100m ~5m
Feedback? 20 people enjoyed sunset at your suggested place!
Changing map According to the seasons, time of the day and weather...
What is needed Database: website to suggest places * * GPS locations database audio storage (partnership with iTunes =)) * Application: access to GPS data * * access to acceletometer data * vibration output * sound output * connection to the database
Timeline * first mock-up sketch Weeks * install Android emulator - try the sketch * get Android phone - access the sensors data and 10-11 vibro/sound outputs * try inputs-outputs with Processing in the city Interaction prototype development Week 12 * change the sketch for the Android - try * improve! - try - improve! Week 13 * assign sound to places around COFA - try Week 14 * have fun! Month 2 * build the website and database Month 3 * connect application to database Application Month 4 * alpha testing - troubleshooting development Month 5-6 * beta test with public envolved - troubleshooting Eventually * release
Concept Statement In my work I got inspired by the Situationist movement and their relation to the cityspace, especially the derive practice, and some of other concepts including the city and the interaction with it. (For example the GPS-drawing idea and different ways of its realization, The Drift example showed in the class). Thinking of different ways to navigate in the city I remembered the old techniques of dowsing which are claimed to help finding the water or minerals under the ground. And adding the possibility of interaction with the phone Ive chosen the pendulum dowsing as a metaphor. Moving from the first concepts of walking along the random shape in the city drawn by other participant, I decided to add more meaning to the activity and also a bit of more playful element. So I got to the final concept of using the phone to sense the city and find places which have special value for its inhabitants. Good Vibrations is an application allowing people to share and find nice places in the city and stories connected to them and experience the city in a new way. It consists of in-phone application and a database of places suggested by the users and audio-files stored with them. Citizens are invited to share their places through the same application or the website. In case of using the application person has to be present at the space which he wants to add. The phone will store the GPS position and add the comment or music to this place. To find other peoples
suggestions one has to go to the city and use phone to search. After starting the application users have to sway the phone as a pendulum and walk with it. Phone will define users position using GPS and find the nearest place from database. Participant is navigated by the vibrations of the phone, which become stronger as person gets closer to the place. As soon as the location is reached the audio file associated to it plays, revealing the story or the music connected to this place in mind of other citizen. This social map can be changing with the seasons, weather and time of the day to bring the best experiences matching the current conditions in the city. This application helps to connect the social dimension of the city to the physical space showing that the places include not only the bricks and mortar but people inhabiting them. The selected way of navigation takes users attention away from the phone screen bringing it back to the city. On their way around people can see new places and try to guess what can be interesting there and where are they are guided to. Mainly they can share others experiences and see the city with the different eyes. But besides that they are getting their own experience of the city while searching for others places. They may get disoriented or even lost on the way, which brings back the need of the navigation skills and exploration spirit which are forgotten with the appearance of GPS- enabled devices with the maps of the entire world.

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  • 1. Intro to Interactive Media Arts Concept Pitch, iteration 2 by Yulia Besplemennova (z3406397)
  • 2. Concept 2 Good Vibrations * Changing peoples behaviour * Connecting social aspect of the city to physical * Stimulating exploration and rethinking relations to the spaces * Novel way of navigation
  • 4. Share it! + with your comment Add it to the map or music
  • 5. Meanwhile in the city... ~1km ~500m ~100m ~5m
  • 6. Feedback? 20 people enjoyed sunset at your suggested place!
  • 7. Changing map According to the seasons, time of the day and weather...
  • 8. What is needed Database: website to suggest places * * GPS locations database audio storage (partnership with iTunes =)) * Application: access to GPS data * * access to acceletometer data * vibration output * sound output * connection to the database
  • 9. Timeline * first mock-up sketch Weeks * install Android emulator - try the sketch * get Android phone - access the sensors data and 10-11 vibro/sound outputs * try inputs-outputs with Processing in the city Interaction prototype development Week 12 * change the sketch for the Android - try * improve! - try - improve! Week 13 * assign sound to places around COFA - try Week 14 * have fun! Month 2 * build the website and database Month 3 * connect application to database Application Month 4 * alpha testing - troubleshooting development Month 5-6 * beta test with public envolved - troubleshooting Eventually * release
  • 10. Concept Statement In my work I got inspired by the Situationist movement and their relation to the cityspace, especially the derive practice, and some of other concepts including the city and the interaction with it. (For example the GPS-drawing idea and different ways of its realization, The Drift example showed in the class). Thinking of different ways to navigate in the city I remembered the old techniques of dowsing which are claimed to help finding the water or minerals under the ground. And adding the possibility of interaction with the phone Ive chosen the pendulum dowsing as a metaphor. Moving from the first concepts of walking along the random shape in the city drawn by other participant, I decided to add more meaning to the activity and also a bit of more playful element. So I got to the final concept of using the phone to sense the city and find places which have special value for its inhabitants. Good Vibrations is an application allowing people to share and find nice places in the city and stories connected to them and experience the city in a new way. It consists of in-phone application and a database of places suggested by the users and audio-files stored with them. Citizens are invited to share their places through the same application or the website. In case of using the application person has to be present at the space which he wants to add. The phone will store the GPS position and add the comment or music to this place. To find other peoples
  • 11. suggestions one has to go to the city and use phone to search. After starting the application users have to sway the phone as a pendulum and walk with it. Phone will define users position using GPS and find the nearest place from database. Participant is navigated by the vibrations of the phone, which become stronger as person gets closer to the place. As soon as the location is reached the audio file associated to it plays, revealing the story or the music connected to this place in mind of other citizen. This social map can be changing with the seasons, weather and time of the day to bring the best experiences matching the current conditions in the city. This application helps to connect the social dimension of the city to the physical space showing that the places include not only the bricks and mortar but people inhabiting them. The selected way of navigation takes users attention away from the phone screen bringing it back to the city. On their way around people can see new places and try to guess what can be interesting there and where are they are guided to. Mainly they can share others experiences and see the city with the different eyes. But besides that they are getting their own experience of the city while searching for others places. They may get disoriented or even lost on the way, which brings back the need of the navigation skills and exploration spirit which are forgotten with the appearance of GPS- enabled devices with the maps of the entire world.