Led it Up @ NFF

Between the 21st and 30th of September the Led it Up Team from the MediaLab Amsterdam team got a spot at the Nederlands Film Festival. Between 19.00hrs and 21.00hrs people could use their smart phones to play the game Galgje with Dropstuff’s screen placed in Neude Utrecht. Using dutch film database video content, and part of the Culture Vortex and Beeld en Geluid initiative, they aimed to their movie fans/knowers public. There was great weather and a relaxed ambient making it easy to enjoy a nice time there.

Using Urban Screen to Enhancing Waiting Time Experience

By matthijs, February 5, 2013

With the aim of enhancing travellers waiting time experience WAIT.THINK! is a social online and offline platform for people who are traveling by train. The prototype is an interactive media solution that helps travellers with issues they might have, combined with important topics that ProRail (Dutch Railroad) wants to communicate. With a humorous tone of [...]

Local Square Advisor

By matthijs, August 5, 2012

Bringing back shared knowledge about locations available through Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram to the physical space, the ‘Local Square Advisor’ project by MediaLAB Amsterdam is a social locative media visualisation tool for Urban Screens. Informative tips and messages will be shown at relevant times, creating an alternative, crowdsourced “guide” of the Leidseplein area in Amsterdam. [...]

Public Screens Forum established

By matthijs, July 5, 2012

Building on the extensive knowledge on the subject of Urban and Public Screens within the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and enabling continuation and further development of the results of the SpaceSee research project (initiated by the lectureship Interactive Public Spaces), the Public Sceens Forum has been established. The mission of this forum is to [...]