Wind

In this paper we present Wind, an on-going research project that aims at constructing new modes of interaction with the city via poetic real-time data visualization. The project consists on a mapping device that measures and stores the intensity and direction of the signal coming from Wi-Fi routers and cellular antennae together with two Android-based augmented reality prototypes that modify what their users see or hear. The prototypes allow us to re-visit the city, intervening on our perception of it as well as allowing us to explore the geographical and perceptual disruption that arises when using one city’s data onto another.

Tomas Laurenzo and Javier Baliosian.

Text from the authors’ 2015 paper, Wind: Mediated Reality Visualization.