2019的梦想与现实-城市导航

2019的梦想与现实-城市导航

By Robert.think at 星期六, 七月 25, 2009 | View Comments

不少人都可能已经看过微软的2019年的生活畅想视频，对于计算机和互联网到底能给我们的生活带来怎样的改变可能已经有了一个非常美好的梦想，尽管现实还有很漫长的距离，但这些技术本身其实并不是空穴来风，事实上在视频中我们所看到的很多交互方式和创新技术早已产生成果或有所运用。Philip van Allen在他的blog上撰文表示该视频中的很多创新技术其实并没有那么"原创"，因为他的一些学生早已开始在研究这些项目，并给出了一些例证。

城市生态寻路技术是其中一个学生的设计项目，其交互方式与微软视频中的指路技术如出一辙，也是以有机玻璃取景的方式来自动识别地点并连接虚拟地图，为使用者提供方向指引和周边信息。下面是该学生设计作品的截图及说明：

"Telepath: Way-finding in the New Urban Ecology" examines the intersection of digital collective memory, locative technology and urbanism as it transforms the Human Computer Interface into a Human Environmental Interface. A Telepath augments the act of looking through computing and gesture through processing, enabling individuals to engage in practical, cultural and emotional mapping as they excavate the specificity and sensibility of their environment.

t makes the invisible digital world � visible ― providing relevant information to a user for specific physical contexts.

Telepath seeks to evolve the Human Computer Interface into a Human Environmental Interface, creating a more elegant relationship between the physical world and the invisible ecology of digital data co-present within it.

Even now, the Internet is constructing a dense architecture of digital co-referents: data that annotates and augments much of our physical world. New locative technologies are going to increase this density, enabling people to place data into geo-specific locations ― a process called tagging.

It is just one of the technologies that will embed our environment with retrievable data, smart objects, and sensors that communicate with us and with each other.

In addition to acting as a "seeing machine", Telepath allow individuals to save, collect, organize, and share digital information (tags) they encounter in the physical world.

原文请见：http://www.artcenter.edu/mdp/gallery/gallery_masters_pop_telepath.html