Task 6.1 is concerned with developing new interfaces and new metaphors for more physical interaction with virtual environments, involving the entire body and its physical properties. The deliverable is divided into three parts: • “A Characterization of Input Devices used in Interactive Installations” develops a taxonomy of how input devices and space have been used in interactive installations. • “Navigation for the Senses”describes several devices for whole-body interaction developed or under development at GMD. • “Some Elementary Gestural Techniques for Real-Time Interaction in Artistic Performances” describes gesture-based interfaces for multimedia performances. Document eRENA-D6.1 Type Deliverable report with video material on eRENA tape Status Final Version 1.0 Date 30 May 1998 Author(s) John Bowers (KTH), Monika Fleischmann (GMD), Sten-Olof Hellström (KTH), Michael Hoch (ZKM), Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro (KTH), Thomas Kulessa (GMD), Jasminko Novak (GMD), Jeffrey Shaw (ZKM), Wolfgang St...

This paper proposes an application, The Re: Living Map , which provides an effective city experience using a mobile phone, GPS tracking and photographs, and describes a new method for constructing the system, named "gpsfred".

A map can be a major advantage when exploring unfamiliar environments. With the proliferation of mobile devices, such as PDAs and even mobile phones, the tourist industry is currently exploring the potential of new presentation strategies that will maximize the promotional appeal of tourism in their region. Mobile devices are capable of guiding a tourist when he/she is exploring a city.

Viewfinders is an online curation platform that allows participants to expand short video shots captured on smartphones into an experimental documentary that both situates travel images into the world and creates a world around them. The project is collaborative, participatory and immersive: by uploading one-minute traveling shots — video taken while on the move, for example from moving vehicles — participants contribute to an ongoing creative and conceptual investigation into the content and aesthetics of travel films made on mobile devices. The videos map individual experiences of travel, which are curated by image-recognition software into a playlist of multiple experiences2. All the individual videos are tagged with GPS metadata, adding to already existing geographical data about the different locations. The resulting short videos can be displayed via the project’s website and a short video3. Viewfinders thus provides participants with a collaborative travel experience, while they can also participate in a collaborative film project. By combining multiple videos about a particular location, the project generates connections between different experiences of the same location. Viewfinders allows its viewers to move through different, new or well-known environments, online and in the future we hope to develop an app for exploring augmented travel experiences on location, letting them highlight, emphasise and share their own experiential encounters as a form of expanded documentary (see image 9.1). Much like border crossings are experienced differently based on our nationalities, the perception of different spaces changes according to who we are and who else occupies these spaces. Viewfinders offers participants the opportunity to see and think about how others have experienced spaces through which they move and discover a new view that they see forming before them. It offers viewers an experience of space that “redefines the self within a constantly shifting elsewhere”4. It lets the participants to be transported to different places on the spot and in the moment, inspired by the place where they are, and that place’s specific sights or points of interest, as is illustrated in our video trailer