A review of locative media, mobile and embodied spatial interaction

A review of locative media, mobile and embodied spatial interaction

Mobile phones have become a mundane and well-established communication device in the everyday lives of many people. Their promise is to connect us to anybody, from anywhere at anytime. Mobile communication has contributed to a shift of people’s role towards ‘networked individuals’ in urban environments (Wellman, 2001, 2002); our person-toperson relationships have become more complex affording a...

A Framework for Spatial Interaction in Locative Media

This paper presents the concepts and techniques used in a family of location based multimedia works. The paper has three main sections: 1.) to describe the architecture of an audio-visual hardware/software framework we have developed for the realization of a series of locative media artworks, 2.) to discuss the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings motivating the design of the technical fram...

Locative Media : a literature review

This document presents a state of the art review of locative media projects. It also explains the concept of location awareness and its different categories. It finally explains to what extent this spatial feature named “location” is used in terms of social activity by allowing to infer multiple levels of knowledge.

Book review: Mobility and Locative Media

Locative media have been on the public agenda since the mid2000s when GPS became available in smartphones, spawning applications such as GoogleMaps, Foursquare, Runkeeper, etc. They are becoming increasingly significant in the everyday routines of smartphone users, and in media design and innovation. While these issues are clearly important, and the individual contributions in this book deal wi...

Mobility and locative media: Mobile communication in hybrid spaces