http://strizzi.dyndns.org/urbanbitlife a locative media project Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:16:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “Urban Tapestries”, part of the ongoing research programme “Social Tapestries”, is a software platform for knowledge mapping and sharing – public authoring. People can associate information, pictures, sound scapes, videos, stories with places and share with each other. It is calles an authoring system because it wants to enable people ... http://strizzi.dyndns.org/urbanbitlife/?p=29 Tying in with Jeremijenkos robotics project Feral Robotic Dogs, “Robotic Feral Public Authoring” combines the two aspects hobbyist robotics and public authoring (mapping and sharing of knowledge), which “both enable people to use emerging technologies in dynamic and exciting new ways. Brought together they open up whole vistas of possibilities ... http://strizzi.dyndns.org/urbanbitlife/?p=28 “Feral Robotic Dogs” or “Feral Robotics ” is an experimental robotics project by Natalie Jeremijenko in which low cost robots are hacked and turned into driving vehicles to inspect their surroundings. Released in a pack, they take notice of each other and together explore visible and invisble parts of their ... http://strizzi.dyndns.org/urbanbitlife/?p=24 In the following, the factors measured in Vienna to determine the air quality and displayed on an official website of the “department for environment protection in Vienna”, shall be described. Ozone - O3 In summer, ozone is the main threat to people’s health. It is a gas which, when it is formed ... http://strizzi.dyndns.org/urbanbitlife/?p=22 A possibility to provide an artefact beside the documentation of the project could be the use of designer toys. They come in many variations but always in simple forms. Easy to adapt and also possible to paint them yourself. Website "myplasticheart" http://strizzi.dyndns.org/urbanbitlife/?p=18 With the CX70 Emoty feelings, emotions and moods can be expressed in a quite new way. Laura, Joey and Wobble are chracters who “live” on your mobile phone and who can express ten different kinds of feelings. By pressing keys on your mobile or through special sensors on the phones ... http://strizzi.dyndns.org/urbanbitlife/?p=14 Spore is a real life simulation reaching from early history up to the present and into the future. By using procedural generation, content and thus life can be “produced on the fly” which offers a tremendous variety in possible developments and scenarios. Official Spore Website Spore at Wikipedia GDC presentation at googleVideo http://strizzi.dyndns.org/urbanbitlife/?p=12 Plazes is a free webapplication and the “first global location-aware interaction and geo-information system, connecting you with the people and Plazes in your area and all over the world” [quote:We-make-money-not-art]. It detects your location and makes you see people in your area, discover other Plazes nearby and keep an eye ... http://strizzi.dyndns.org/urbanbitlife/?p=11 The “Umweltbundesamt” posts daily reports about the air quality in citys and areas all over Austria. Concentration of particular matter (=Feinstaub), sulfur dioxide (=Schwefeldioxid), nitrogen dioxide (=Stickstoff Dioxid) and carbon monoxide (=Kohlenmonoxid) is measured and displayed. Air Quality Reports of the “Umweltbundesamt” http://strizzi.dyndns.org/urbanbitlife/?p=10 A commercial organization providing free, real-time weather information via the Internet. The weather information is continously supplemented by measured data of personal weather stations of individual users. Wunderground Wunderground at Wikipedia http://strizzi.dyndns.org/urbanbitlife/?p=9