Proximeter: predicting mobility

“Would you know if a dear, but seldom seen, friend happened to be on the same train as you? The proximeter is both an agent that tracks the past and future proximity of one’s social cloud, and an instrument that charts this in an ambient display. (more…)

Datascape

Datascape (2006) by Eric Kabisch is a social geographic storytelling platform that enables artists, researchers, community groups and others to narrate their communities and physical spaces through a mobile vehicle-based laboratory. The van has (more…)

Compass phone

Compass phone (2007) by Hayeon Yoo is a mobile device that aims to promote users’ communication based on their geographic position. It does not support any conversation. When one person calls the other the device uses its embedded GPS to (more…)