Online learning in the real world
Surviving on the savannah
A research consortium in Bristol2 has been exploring the possibilities created by overlaying a digital landscape onto the physical world to create ' mediascapes '. Imagine that as you walk around you can tap into sounds, sights and interactions that not only relate to where you are, what you are looking at and what you are doing, but that also augment your experience of the world around you. This is the idea of a mediascape. It works by using GPS or any other location technology, a personal digital environment that can respond to context and play media, and an authoring environment for creating the located content. The mediascape designer maps out areas and events in the environment, and uses movement and action to trigger the media that the user will see and hear