Mobile Bristol: A City of Pervasive Experiences

The Mobile Bristol project is funded by the Department of Trade and Industry in the United Kingdom, with the founding partners being Hewlett Packard Laboratories, the University of Bristol and the Appliance Studio. Mobile Bristol investigates how mobile devices and pervasive information technology can be used to enhance the ways in which residents and visitors experience and interact with their physical environment and with each other in urban and public spaces. Imagine a digital landscape overlaying the physical world. As you walk around this landscape, you can activate by your presence and actions digital sounds, sights and interactions that are located in the environment. The digital landscape is formed from a dynamic and overlapping set of mediascapes which are context-sensitive combinations of digital media and interactions created and deployed by various authors using the authoring tool we have developed.