MIT Mobile Experience Lab

Podcasts series (1) for Locast project by MIT Mobile Experience Lab (locast.mit.edu)


Locast is an innovative platform for sharing and discovering location-based user-generated videos and production quality multimedia content provided by RAI New Media. It consists of a combination of Mobile and Wearable Computing elements supported by a distributed Web application. Contents gathered from RAI TV historical archives and User- Generated ones are linked to physical locations in Venice in order to be accessible to all those visiting the space.

The project focuses on the uniqueness of the Italian cities’ heritage, a worldwide patrimony superimposing a layer that corresponds to the shared media-based memory of the recent Italian past: RAI Archives.
Locast explores location-based narrowcasting potential and actively engages the users to participate in the media production/consumption process together with a historical institution such as RAI TV. It shifts the innovation from the wide-spread concept of Web2.0 to the promising scenario of Space2.0 that keeps the physical and social characteristics of the Italian cities and augment them with the potential offered by pervasive computing.

locast.mit.edu


Video-maker: Dan Johnston
Editing: David Boardman
Music: Moby

Podcasts series (2) for Locast project by MIT Mobile Experience Lab (locast.mit.edu)


Locast is an innovative platform for sharing and discovering location-based user-generated videos and production quality multimedia content provided by RAI New Media. It consists of a combination of Mobile and Wearable Computing elements supported by a distributed Web application. Contents gathered from RAI TV historical archives and User- Generated ones are linked to physical locations in Venice in order to be accessible to all those visiting the space.

The project focuses on the uniqueness of the Italian cities’ heritage, a worldwide patrimony superimposing a layer that corresponds to the shared media-based memory of the recent Italian past: RAI Archives.
Locast explores location-based narrowcasting potential and actively engages the users to participate in the media production/consumption process together with a historical institution such as RAI TV. It shifts the innovation from the wide-spread concept of Web2.0 to the promising scenario of Space2.0 that keeps the physical and social characteristics of the Italian cities and augment them with the potential offered by pervasive computing.

locast.mit.edu


Video-maker: Dan Johnston
Editing: David Boardman
Music: Moby

Podcasts series (1) for Locast project by MIT Mobile Experience Lab (locast.mit.edu)


Locast is an innovative platform for sharing and discovering location-based user-generated videos and production quality multimedia content provided by RAI New Media. It consists of a combination of Mobile and Wearable Computing elements supported by a distributed Web application. Contents gathered from RAI TV historical archives and User- Generated ones are linked to physical locations in Venice in order to be accessible to all those visiting the space.

The project focuses on the uniqueness of the Italian cities’ heritage, a worldwide patrimony superimposing a layer that corresponds to the shared media-based memory of the recent Italian past: RAI Archives.
Locast explores location-based narrowcasting potential and actively engages the users to participate in the media production/consumption process together with a historical institution such as RAI TV. It shifts the innovation from the wide-spread concept of Web2.0 to the promising scenario of Space2.0 that keeps the physical and social characteristics of the Italian cities and augment them with the potential offered by pervasive computing.

locast.mit.edu


Video-maker: Dan Johnston
Editing: David Boardman
Music: Moby

The Connected Home of the future will incorporate an integrated approach to buildings and their interaction with occupants, the local community, and beyond. This demonstration of the Connected Home of the future incorporates smart energy solutions, automated services and efficiency measures to aid citizens lead more sustainable lives.

Technologies such as a Personal Travel Assistant, energy monitoring tools, TelePresence and social networking interactions, and energy grids for micro generation of energy across the urban community illustrate how citizens can play a positive and sustainable role in their urban landscape.


Connected Urban Development

The following proof of concept studies are intended as future visions of the utilization of CUD pilot programs in urban environments. These visions of connected and sustainable urban development were created by MIT Mobile Experience Lab in collaboration with Cisco Systems - Internet Business Solutions Group.


Team

MIT Mobile Experience Lab
Federico Casalegno
Dave Chiu
David Boardman
Sergio Araya

Special thanks to William J.Mitchell for advice and guidance.

Cisco Systems Inc.
Tony Kim
Shane Mitchell
J.D. Stanley
Nicola Villa


3D Renderings / Video
Creator.LT



More info:
mobile.mit.edu/connected-urban-development/
connectedurbandevelopment.org

Future near-field communication (NFC) usages in every-day life

Near-Field Communication is a short-range high-frequency wireless communication technology which enables the exchange of data between devices over approximately 10-cm distance. Current usages include mobile ticketing on public transportation systems, mobile payment, smart postering, and bluetooth pairing.

For this project, MIT Mobile Experience Lab imagined future scenarios on NFC technology in the specific context of Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus.

More info
mobile.mit.edu/en/nokianfc

With the support of
Nokia - Connecting People

Core Team
Federico Casalegno (PI)
David Boardman & Agnes Chang (Project leaders)