Yarncraft: Location Aware Narratives in Virtual Space

Does locality make a difference? Assessing the effectiveness of location-aware narratives

Please cite this article in press as: Karapanos, E. Comput. (2012), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intc With the increasing sophistication of mobile computing, a growing interest has been paid to locative media that aim at providing immersive experiences. Location aware narratives are a particular kind of locative media that aim at ‘‘telling stories that unfold in real space’’. This paper presents...

M-Views: A System for Location-Based Storytelling

M-Views is a system for creating and participating in context-sensitive, mobile cinematic narratives. A Map Agent detects participant location in 802.11 enabled space and triggers a location appropriate video message which is sent context -aware systems, participatory media, wireless indoor location awareness, mobile cinema, storytelling

Location Aware Multimedia Narratives

Mobile Geotagging: Reexamining Our Interactions with Urban Space

Mobile geotagging services offer people new ways to interact with and through urban space. In this paper, we focus on a mobile geotagging service called Socialight and the social practices associated with it. In-depth interviews and participant observation were conducted in order to explore how Socialight’s virtual ‘‘sticky notes’’ were used in everyday life. Findings indicated how users commun...

A Review of the Concepts of Social Action and Isolation in Virtual Space

Cyberspace and its impact as the main competitor of real space in various aspects is considered and have been studied by many thinkers and theorists. For various reasons (political, social, cultural, etc.) it is lead to the presence of people, especially young people in virtual space, as all borders crossed the behavior and influence actions of people. According to the increasing importance and...