英國的都市拼布企劃：《Urban Tapestries》
Smartmobs(快閃大教主？哈！)上這個禮拜介紹了好幾個特別有趣的東西，而《都市拼布》大概是理論和執行計劃看起來最為完善的一個。計劃在今年五月開動，那時後來有出席 moblogging conference 的 blogger 們才在醞釀 location-based moblogging 的討論，沒想到 Ben Russell(headmap blog) 腳步這麼快，Urban Tapestries 已經開始在推動這個實驗性架構：
Urban Tapestries is a framework for understanding the social, cultural, economic and political implications of pervasive location-based mobile and wireless systems.
參與人可以利用手機或其他的行動運算技術終端，在市街中對於不同的空間點作註解的動作。簡單來說，這可以用來客製化做個人軌跡、公眾主題或事件的多媒體地圖。或是例如我們經過一個被註解過的空間點時，可以利用手機去「嗅出」歷前(previous)註記之脈絡和瀑流。這麼一來，都市空間的公眾記憶便可使用這個架構來建築，使用者也能對於個人、空間和記憶間的無線連結(wireless connection)做出快速詮釋。而對於整個計劃的未來展望，scalability 和 cost 間應該會取得非常理想的平衡。這剛好符合了 MySociety.org 所召示的評分標準。
我記得日本有學校採取技術面要求比較高，但是社會公眾參與面不佳的計劃(space annotation, 但 approach 非常依賴終端機的視覺三惟模擬)。資料佚失，找到再貼上來。我應該可以試試看小範圍的把這個計劃的啟發移植到摩托摩莎上。《都市拼布》顯然已經把傳統 moblog 社群遠遠拋在後面，進入「實體暴民」的階段。等著瞧後續發展。
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Habitat Perspectives is another project I did a while ago. I started that one as an attempt to make my first steps into augmented reality. I had been experimenting with GPS for a while and originally wanted to build a system where people could simply virtually drop information in real spaces.
Proboscis is pleased to announce the start of our 2nd field trial of Urban Tapestries, in partnership with Orange UK, Ordnance Survey and France Telecom R&D.
Proboscis has recruited 9 participants to each test the mobile phone version of UT over a 4 week period to give us a sense of why, what for and how people will use it over time. The recruits are all being provided with Sony Ericsson P800s with GPRS connections. Our partners in running the trial, Orange and France Telecom R&D will be recruiting additional staff members (not involved in the project) to take part too. Overall we hope to have between 40 and 50 participants, each testing the system out for 4 weeks.
The trial covers a 3km square area of central London and uses cell triangulation from the Orange network to assist with location sensing. In addition to their actual public authoring using UT, the participants will be completing user experience questionnaires designed by Proboscis (with help from Zoe Sujon at MEDIA@LSE), which aim to help us explore the experiences of authoring, mobility and social and cultural contexts. The server log data will also be analysed to give us an understanding of such crucial issues as time, frequency, type of content, popularity of content etc…
The aim of the trial is to help build us a picture of the future of public authoring technologies such as Urban Tapestries, and to reveal not only the kinds of uses which we have already identified through our own research, but to allow for new ones to emerge simply by having different people use the system over time.
Proboscis will publish a report containing evaluation from this field trial and the previous public trial, as well as as summation of our research to date in September 2004.
The project – http://urbantapestries.net
Screenshots of the prototype – http://urbantapestries.net/prototype.html
Trial details & area covered – http://urbantapestries.net/june2004_trial.html
Proje ct weblog – http://urbantapestries.net/weblog/
Proboscis
research ing, developing and facilitating creative innovation
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突然想到兩個日前東森電子報提到，可以多加想像利用的計劃，分別是「關渡自然公園無線寬頻上網計畫」和台北縣「無線環遊滬尾、文化溯源八里無線導覽計畫」。
導覽畢竟僅止於單方向內容的「推播」，而這些內容絕大多數是由官方自己去「產生」的。若進一步利用「都市拼布」的 framework，那麼產生這些內容的方向可以轉化為「多對多(many to many)」，而不只是目前的少對多(few to many)的被動導覽。
把它想成是在 “wireless sky" 這個場域裡去建構 blogosphere 的運用會更能看出可能性，但是使用者習慣可能還是最關鍵的問題。
great, Have a nice weekend!