Bristol Mediascape technology used across the world
September 19, 2006 Posted by Clare in : Wireless, Community Media, News , trackbackOn Friday 15 September, HP Labs, Bristol staged the first Mediascape conference, an event which brought together people from around the world who have downloaded the Mobile Bristol mediascape authoring tool.
From tourist guides to health-related games, the tool helps users to create applications that overlay digital experiences (sounds and images) onto physical environments. Since the authoring toolkit has been available it has been downloaded as far afield as Australia and Japan.
From Odense in Denmark to Yosemite in California, The Mediascape Conference featured applications that used the tool within heritage, education, community and artistic installations as well as interactive games.
The tool has also been widely used with a school and community setting - participants were treated to a glimpse of the work of children from schools in Belfast, who had collaborated with researchers to create social and personal histories of the Titanic.
In the Southville area of Bristol a local group have not only created their own mediascapes about wartime memories of Bristol but have set up a loan scheme for equipment to encourage others to create their own mediascape eperiences.
At lunchtime, attendees of the conference were invited to experience ‘ere be dragons’ one of the first games to be created in the new medium which used location and heart rate sensors to encourage excercise and determin the game’s outcome
Bristol’s Futurelab also announced the recent launch of www.createascape.org.uk, a mediascape creation website for schools which provides a resource for pupils and teachers to encourage use of the toolkit and the exploration of the new medium for education.
Finally, HP Labs, Bristol described the forthcoming release of the latest full version of the toolkit this autumn which addresses many of the limitations of its predecessor.
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