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Kristin O'Friel

User Experience Researcher

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Plott.me

An iPhone and web application for creating and sharing guided tours.
Exploring the relationship between narrative and physical space, Plott.me investigates how an immersive context transforms traditional narrative form by providing tools to record and then upload geo-tagged audio and photos. We used two platforms for the delivery of location-specific content, the iPhone and Google Maps’s Street View. We enlisted the iPhone for its ability, as a mobile device, to use natural movement through physical space, and we leveraged Google’s database of compelling panoramic imagery in Street View to allow for an alternate exploration of storytelling in physical space online.

MADE BY

  • Thomas Chan
  • Yaminie Patodia
  • Mitch Said
  • Kristin O’Friel

MEDIA

  • Flickr photo set
  • Vimeo video

EXHIBITS

  • NY Tech Meetup Showcase, 2009 (Thomas Chan)
  • ITP Winter Show, 2008
Plott Google Street View UI
Navigating a tour in Google Street View

Plott Identity
Plott list of tours
Plott tour map
Navigating a tour on the iPhone
Create new tour
Plott story composition
Creating a new tour and mapping story points-of-interest
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Operator

A switchboard that calls public payphones.

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Plott.me

An iPhone and web application for creating and sharing guided tours.

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CO2RSET

Couture that responds to CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

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Momo

A haptic navigation device.

Pockets (for the Rest of You)

Pockets mapped to the hand positions of physical embraces.

Crowd of people enjoying icies from the Karaoke Ice truck

Karaoke Ice

Ice cream truck turned mobile karaoke unit.

Synaesthesia Installation

Synaesthesia

A networked installation of sensory exchange between audial, visual and tactile data.

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Keyhole

One of eight networked installations about surveillance.

Screen capture of Networked Boxes running at SXSW

Network Boxes

A CarnivorePE client that visualizes wireless network activity.

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VOTE Block Tags

Tags of NYC voting poll site addresses.

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Hopscotch

An intervention that inserts play into the crosswalk.

Painted environment under blacklight

Fluorescent Landscape

A hidden landscape visible under blacklight.

Woven sign post at Astor Place

A Day of Weaving

Woven installations around urban infrastructure.
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