Yesterday the two groups presented, the first about Google maps and the second about apps relating to RMIT (RMIT lost on campus, digital signage at RMIT, safe zone app etc.).

It was great to see all the research that had gone into the other groups and they only got to show probably only a quarter of their research from the last couple of weeks. Our class will use this research to create our final project at the end of the semester.

Some ideas that popped up:

From the Google game, Ingress, that used certain places around Melbourne as “portals”. Rachel brought up a great idea about using our researched buildings as portals and then when they take a picture of it or use some sort of QR code perhaps it could link them to what it used to look like –> history of the building. Or even one of our pieces that we work on like a short film.

The interactive digital signage could be turned into an interactive map to showcase our work for a day –> this would need some advertising involved as well –> it could be like a guide or kind of treasure hunt where you have to go to all the destinations, while learning about the building along the way –> then picking up clues/facts that link to an app/game

We could just create a game using google maps to showcase our work –> you can be a character in the game and you have to get past certain levels – Storey Hall could be the first few levels and then the Magistrate Court being another few levels and then building 15, 20 and the fig tree area could be incorporated if people are still researching them

These are only a few – our group researching about Way finding is still to present which could add the conversation about certain medians we could use or mix together.