Andy demonstrating Tales of Things at Be2Camp Brum 2010; via Meshed Media Today’s post is another presentation I heard at Be2camp Brum 2010 last week. (It was truly an inspiring and thought-provoking day!) Tales of Things was presented by Andy Hudson-Smith from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL. Tales of Things explores social memory [...]
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Tales of Things
August 20th, 2010 2 Comments
Tags: augmented · book · electronic · inspiration · making · sharing
Accessible Reading
August 19th, 2010 No Comments
While bookleteer works to make publishing accessible to everyone regardless of skill, software or money, Pesky People are working to make online reading accessible to everyone. For Pesky People accessibility is about highlighting and campaigning for equal access to the internet for deaf and disabled people. Alison Smith, the founder of Pesky People spoke at [...]
Library of Birmingham at Be2Camp Brum 2010
August 16th, 2010 No Comments
Design for Library of Birmingham by Mecanoo architects Be2camp Brum 2010 was loosely themed around libraries. A new building for Birmingham Central Library (where Be2camp Brum 2010 was held) is currently under construction and due to open in 2013 and the first three presentations at Be2camp Brum were concerned with how digital technologies are being [...]
The collage illustrations of Dave McKean
August 12th, 2010 2 Comments
Last week I began to draft a post about digital artist Dave McKean’s illustrations. I was planning to return to the half-written post when I got an email from Giles saying did I know that Dave McKean illustrated a piece of writing for COIL (the Journal of the Moving Image which Giles founded and edited) [...]
Tags: augmented · creative writing · drawing · electronic · inspiration · making
How to keep a geological field notebook
August 6th, 2010 No Comments
A very tangible field notebook (via fieldnotebookcom) Following on from the paper versus digital notebook conversation the other day I came across this post describing how to keep a geological field notebook. What I liked was how few of the characteristics and possible uses of a geologists field notebook they list actually have to do [...]
Tags: augmented · eNotebooks · inspiration · notebooks
How can you have a pop-up book on the iPad?
July 28th, 2010 1 Comment
This was the question I typed into Google as I wondered how the iPad, Kindle and other eBook readers (or rather, developers of eBooks for these platforms) might accommodate the tangible properties of books such as size, paper type, pop-up illustrations and so on, that vary from book to book and make paper books such [...]
Tags: augmented · electronic · inspiration · pop-up
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July 27th, 2010 No Comments
I’m not sure if Choose Your Own Adventure books count as shared making or shared reading (or both?) but I would certainly claim it as an augmented reading experience. The Choose Your Own Adventure series of children’s books was published by Bantam books between 1979 and 1998, however, the format was used for several other [...]
Tags: augmented · book · bookleteering · inspiration
James Bridle: Bookcubes and bookleteer API
July 26th, 2010 1 Comment
A set of Bookcubes generated using the bookleteer API James Bridle of booktwo.org was one of the participants at the Pitch Up and Publish: Augmented Reading a couple of weeks ago, and he talked a little about the idea of books as symbols and the related BookCube project he’d done using the bookleteer API. Here, [...]
Tags: API · augmented · book · bookleteer · cube · electronic · examples · inspiration
Storybird – collaborative storytelling
July 22nd, 2010 No Comments
Storybird is a website where you can create your own online illustrated storybook. Aimed at children from 3 – 13 books can be created collaboratively and they positively encourage families, friends and school classes to work together. The artwork for your stories is provided by illustators and visual artists who are able to upload their [...]
Tags: augmented · book · drawing · inspiration · online
Battle of the Reading Formats
July 13th, 2010 No Comments
An iPad disguised to fit in on a book shelf. * See the bottom of this post for more. Fitting in very nicely with our discussions on Augmented Reading, Jakob Nielsen, the legend of usability studies, has conducted a test on the relative reading experience of reading a short story (Ernest Hemingway, in case you’re [...]
Tags: augmented · electronic · evaluation
Carlton say Books Come Alive
July 12th, 2010 2 Comments
New Scientist reports that UK publisher Carlton have launched two titles in their Augmented Reality series. The books – Fairyland Magic and Dinosaurs Alive – include a CD with software to install on your PC. Once this is done you point your webcam at the pages of the book and the webcam image of the [...]
Tags: augmented · book · electronic
HITLabNZ: Magic Book
June 18th, 2010 1 Comment
Writing about Rita King’s Second Life and augmented reality Story Cubes reminded me of the Magic Book project I came across a while ago. Developed by researchers at the HITLabNZ and led by Mark Billinghurst, Magic Book enables readers to augment their reading experience with 3-D images. Viewing the pages of the Magic Book through [...]
Tags: augmented · inspiration · virtual
Rita J. King: StoryCubes in a Virtual World
June 15th, 2010 No Comments
Story Cubes in Second Life As I explore Story Cubes I thought I would investigate how artists have used these objects in more successful ways than my fabulously unsuccessful pinhole camera experiments. Rita J. King of Dancing Ink Productions was commissioned by Giles to contribute to Transformations on diffusion.org.uk. Transformations asks writers, artists, performers, thinkers [...]
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