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Will you help me to find the fishmongers hall?
The production of digital media exhibitions to engage children in fishing heritage is being discussed by Richard Griffiths. The opportunity was a high traffic but low engagement small museum on the Brighton beachfront. They used an interactive storytelling system (BBC’s InStep), used initially in a temporary Egyptology exhibit. Given a “you are a reporter” scenario […]
Aliens arrive and fall in love with sheep
October 26, 2007
Alexander Pollak and Paul Scheibelhofer, are presenting a paper in the Reaching Young People session at ICHIM. Their paper examines interactive technologies around children’s culture. They tell the story of the success of the ZOOM media lab in Vienna. The approach is participatory: children are facilitated to produce their own short videos. In 1.5 hour […]
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Viewing the “view zone” breaks down virtual barriers
October 26, 2007
Laura Pecchioli and Fawzi Mohamed have a good approach to overcoming the dual problems of integration of context information into virtual worlds and the connection of those virtual worlds to the real one. They have developed a system, ArchApp that links context information to 3d environments by means of a view zone. In their prototype […]
User generated game increases awareness of spatial environments
October 26, 2007
A demonstration stood out for me this morning at ICHIM. Hide’n’seek is a simple idea to increase engagement with user generated trails (www.hidenseek.us/). Each game becomes a weaving of memories based on experiences, clues, questions, challenges, and pictures that can allow a heightened awareness of space This gives: placed based knowledge without maps Thierry and […]
A diaspora of objects from the Yukon
October 25, 2007
Complementing our paper is Sarah Charlie, Ed Krahn‘s paper Searching For Our Heritage. This, they describe as a work in progress – that started in 1987 and will probably never be finished. In short, they are working to identify Yukon artifacts scattered in museums around the world- a different sort of diaspora! A big part […]
Computing for Sustainability 
October 26, 2007
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