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SuperForager

by Laura Pullig, Samantha Jones, Neil Winterburn

SuperForager is the belt that rumbles your tummy to alert you if there is food to forage nearby.

The project is being developed to explore the use of wearables to stimulate peoples curiosity towards their environment.

The belt is being developed by Sam Jones, Laura Pullig, Neil Winterburn & Tim Brunsden.

Throughout the iMal Urban Media Lab  we will be exploring how communication via wearables can be used to stimulate informal cooperative action by people super powers to communicate with each other and share foraging skills and knowledge.

We will be exploring the metaphor of food foraging super powers to engage people with foraging and to play with the idea that foraging knowledge is a kind of super sense that allows people to sense hidden treasures.

We are exploring the use of wearables to stimulate curiosity by alerting people to look around for available food.

 

Brussels Links


Weekly Air Bike hire - http://en.villo.be

Expat Brussels info site = http://brussels.angloinfo.com/informatio

 

Tech Links

Breadboard for the haptic motor
haptic schematic.png

haptic breadboard.jpg

 

Scraping from Boskoi


Boskoi uses the open source crowd map service Ushadi

http://www.ushahidi.com/product/ushahidi

 

Notes from Joey

Hi Neil,
I won't attent friday, but I can tell you right now you can query the Boskoi database by using its public API.
For example if you want to see all the edibles around Amsterdam Central station,
you use the following API request:

I will explain the query parameter by parameter:
task=incidents (give us edibles as results)
by=latlon (we want to select by using a location)
latitude=52.3797359
longitude=4.9010083 (the starting location)
range=0.01 (the range around the lat and long, the query subtracts this value from the lat/long)

id=0 (starting id to search from, usefull if you only want newer edibles than id x)
limit=50 (maximum amounts of edibles to return)
resp=json (data is fed back either via json or xml)
I think thats all you need from the Boskoi database, if you have anymore questions, you have my email now ;)
Kind regards,
Joey van der Bie

 

 

3D Printing

www.thingiverse.com

 

Haptic


Instructables Haptic Compass Belt

North paw - ankle based haptic compass

 

Boskoi & Wearables

Fo.am's use of Boskoi & Ushaldi to create a locative game

 

Urban Edibles - Designed Boskoi

Boskoi Augmented Foraging App for mobile

 

Wireframe Prototyping tools (mock up web apps)

http://mashable.com/2013/04/02/wireframing-tools-mobile

https://proto.io

 

SuperForager Colour Scheme

 

Grey/green -
rgba(209,207,198,255)
#d1cfc6ff


Yellow -
rgba(238,238,34,255)
#eeee22ff


Bright Green
rgba(123,213,88,255)
#7bd558ff

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Date: June 2014

Last updated: June 2014

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