SUMMER 2013
Public Spaces - Movement and Behavior
Sense ans the City: Dynamix Public Spaces Workshop
A study done by MIT to track movement, behavior, and gathering paterns. A group of volunteers were given cameras and special tracking elements to place in a park. They also signed up to their twitter and instagram accounts. All of these technologies were taken into consideration to see how people gathered, what they tweeted, instagramed and to see how they behaved in a public setting.
Copenhagen Airport - First 360 degree Wayfinding App
This is the first app that actually being used that is completely 360 degrees. This is a virtual 3-D map of the Copenhagen Airport.
How it works: You type your current location, or you allow the app to "find you" then you type your desired destination, exaple. terminal G. It takes a few seconds then a blue line appears on your screen, when you begin to walk the line starts to move with you and updates its location. There are several thresholds troughout the journey, as you pass them in real life the app passes them too. It gets as specific as to which elevator you should take.
Viadirect Digital Solution of Signage and Wayfinding
This technology by Viadirect is emerging mainly in Malls. It serves as an easier wayfinding tool thatn the picture directories that are not interactive.The interactive directories allows you to type the store you are looking for and to see what is around it so you can locate yourself.
This technology is beign placed in hospitals which allow for patients and visitors to locate themselves and important rooms in the hospitals. This is a great idea due to the great size of hospitals.