Free UI tester

Just ran across this free user interface tester. Thought you might find it useful:

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Rough cut of the Fort Vancouver Mobile promo video

FVM intern Aaron May shared this rough cut today, asking for feedback, before finishing the piece. What do you think? We'll talk about this in class tonight.

New York Times story on museum apps

Lots of interesting information here about other folks trying to apply mobile technology to "museums."

From Picassos to Sarcophagi, Guided by Phone Apps

Interactive fiction: The future of the book?

The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

From The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/sep/22/ideo-and-interactive-fiction

"What impact will digital books have on the experience of the written word – apart from the form factor, and the ability to store hundreds of works on a single ebook reader? Will the rise of gadgets like Kindle and tablet computers like iPad actually contribute to the medium in a creative way?
This is a question that design consultancy IDEO has grappled with, producing a Vimeo clip to show three possible book-reading applications for tablet computers and ebook readers: Nelson, Coupland and Alice. It's the third (from 3:03 onwards) that interests us. Alice, the narrative informs us, is "an interactive reading experience that invites the reader to engage with the story-telling process [...] Stories unfold and develop through the reader's active participation." ...

Shape-shifting of the mobile phone

The mobile phone is getting physical, or blending into the physical world. ... This TEDTalk looks at what could be next.

HistoryPin

Fascinating to see something like HistoryPin emerge, especially with a Google partnership, and the engine that comes behind that:



Very promising idea. Geolocated augmented reality data with mobile devices has been difficult to get to work properly on a large scale in the past, such as with Wikitude and Layar. I assume the AR overlays are the logical progression of where this service is going long term, although it appears also to be a desktop system as is. But if you test this out, let me know how it works for you and what you think.

Village map

I have annotated the Fort Vancouver map above, to help you visualize and create a geo-based schematic for you digital story. Please feel free to download this image and mark up as needed.