Mobility and Locative Media

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

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.

Locative media and data-driven computing experiments

Over the past two decades urban social life has undergone a rapid and pervasive geocoding, becoming mediated, augmented and anticipated by location-sensitive technologies and services that generate and utilise big, personal, locative data. The production of these data has prompted the development of exploratory data-driven computing experiments that seek to find ways to extract value and insigh...

Humanist evaluation Methods in Locative Media design

Media design can be used for research purposes if it includes a clearly defined research question and clear evaluation to see whether an answer to the research question has been found. Using a project with locative media for classical music communication as my example, I discuss common evaluation methods from the User experience field, observing that they all tend to test “interface” and not “c...