Creating Community Fountains by (Re-)Designing the Digital Layer of Way-finding Pillars
Way-finding pillars for tourists aid them in navigating an unknown area. The pillars show nearby points of interest, offer information about public transport and provide a scale for the neighbourhood. Through a series of studies with tourists and locals, we establish their different needs. In this space, we developed Mappy, a mobile application which augments and enhances way-finding pillars with an added digital layer. Mappy opens up opportunities for reappropriation of, and engagement with, the pillars. Seeing the pillars beyond their initial use case by involving a diverse range of people let us develop the digital layer and subsequently overall meaning of way-finding pillars further: as "community fountains" they engage locals and tourists alike and can provoke encounters between them.
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- Spiel, Katharina
- Werner, Katharina
- Hödl, Oliver
- Ehrenstrasser, Lisa
- Fitzpatrick, Geraldine
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Paper in Conference Proceedings or in Workshop Proceedings (Poster) |
Event Title |
19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services |
Divisions |
Cooperative Systems |
Subjects |
Angewandte Informatik Informatik in Beziehung zu Mensch und Gesellschaft Anwendungssoftware Computer in der Freizeit |
Event Location |
Vienna, Austria |
Event Type |
Conference |
Event Dates |
4.-7. September 2017 |
Date |
4 September 2017 |
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