'Zones 1.5', the International Workshop on Digital Empathy, Ulster University, Derry

Installed Zones 1.5 in the Great Hall at Ulster University's Magee Campus in Derry. It was installed for the International Digital Empathy Workshop.

Zones was collaborative project between Alan Dormer, Black Bear Software and myself. It involved the development two mobile-based Augmented Reality (AR) installations. AR enriches and enhances our experience of real-world environments by overlaying new perceptual information that seamlessly integrates into our experience of an environment in realtime. This combination of the real and virtual worlds opens up new interactive and experiential possibilities.

We created two location/proximity-aware installations that were delivered over mobile devices with headphones. The system was driven by a mobile phone application interacting with a Bluetooth (BLE 4.0) beacon infrastructure. The system mapped audio and images to specific locations within the environments. Participants could then navigate through the spaces and the sounds they were hearing and images they were seeing over the app would change depending on the route they took through the environment.