Posts By: matthijs

With the aim of enhancing travellers waiting time experience WAIT.THINK!...

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 [...]
Bringing back shared knowledge about locations available through Twitter, Foursquare...

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. [...]
Building on the extensive knowledge on the subject of Urban...

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 [...]