PROJECT STUDIO OVERVIEW
With the popularity of products such as Google Earth, the ability to move fluidly between macro and micro views has become increasingly commonplace and "the zoom" has become a familiar interactive technique for navigating images and other spatial representations. But beyond "the wow factor", what are the significant opportunities and challenges of designing and engaging such interactive images?
Our prototype situates the panoramas within a grid of content that changes as the user zooms in and out, prompting associations and faciliating deeper readings of both the text and photograph. Although the content in this prototype is static, we imagine it dynamically drawing-in media to produce rich mash-ups of data and narrative with the interactive image.
DESIGNERS
Jisun An - DM Graduate Student (Fall 07)
Michael Arteaga - HCI Graduate Student (Fall 07)
Joel Linderman - DM Graduate Student (Fall 07)
Adam Rice - DM Graduate Student (Fall 07)
Josh Teague - HCI Graduate Student (Fall 07)
Carl DiSalvo - Asst Prof., Digital Media
for more information contact Carl DiSalvo at carl.disalvo [at] lcc.gatech.edu
TRANSPORTATION
We focused our investigation and design by considering how interactive high-resolution panoramic images might be used to document, express and share the experiences of life in urban Atlanta. Multiple themes were proposed and explored, including homelessness and infrastructure, but it was the theme of transportation that emerged as most salient.
The subject and issues of transportation saturate the experience of Atlanta. Residents define themselves as inside or outside of the perimeter, referring not to a city or county line, but to the encircling 485 highway. Massive interstates transect the sprawl and broad streets provide multi-laned thoroughfares across the city. The primacy of the car and of driving has earned Atlanta the label "the Los Angeles of the South." Existing in the shadow of the car, but with verve nonetheless, is a decades old public transportation system consisting of buses and trains, as well as fledgling pedestrian and bicycle routes. That transportation is so central to our understanding and experience of contemporary Atlanta should not be surprising given its origins as a railroad settlement named “Terminus".
The high-resolution panoramic images provide a unique opportunity to momentarily pause the hurry of transportation and examine it more closely. This examination of transportation not in motion, but rather in stillness, allows us to view and consider our movement through space and perhaps more importantly, to devote pondering attention to the spaces we move through, but often fail to see.
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