Experiments, applications, & proposals

+ Mobile Frames research has inspired many projects, the key ones being Frameburst and Videowalks. However, there are many more applications for the research, some that is currently being developed.

+ Blue-Time
+ There are plans to develop a participatory system for the production of 'Bullet-time' sequences. The aim would be to provide extreme sports athletes the ability to record their performances as bullet-time sequences by arranging other mobile phone operators around the action. As soon as one person takes a picture, it also controls the shutters of the other mobile cameras, providing a set of exactly timed photographs, taken from angles around the action.

+ Find & Seek
+ Based on the traditional game of Hide and Seek, Find & Seek reverses all the players roles into seekers, rather than hiders. To start, each player agrees to participate by taking a photo of their face and sending it via bluetooth to a central server. The game begins by the server sending back to each player's phone a unique code and a composition of the rest of the player's faces. The object of the game is to find the rest of the players by using the images of their face as a guide. The winner is the player who has swapped the most number of unique codes.

+ Stratford Circus
+ Already nearing the end of the development phase, this project uses the imagery input of the inhabitants of Stratford Circus, London to populate an outdoor screen that is present on the building. Participants can Bluetooth their photographs to the screen, which masks them with a specific shape. The challenge is to position yourself in your viewfinder in the right way - to fit the mask shape on the screen.

+ Royal Festival Hall
+ For the Royal Festival Hall's (London) 2006 hoarding program, Bluetooth technology is being utilised to send the public unique ringtones, that they will have a hand in composing. The proposal outlines the use of an entire orchestra pit which allows passers-by to interactively play the orchestra, creating a dynamic soundscape by the hall.

+ Personlapse
+ Personlapse is a mobile sonic artwork. An application running on a participant's phone records a second sound every five minutes. At the end of a period of time, this audio data can be sequenced to create a unique timelapse sonic composition.

+ English Heritage
+ Currently in development, is a proposal to work with English Heritage on their 'Blue Plaques' program. The proposal will suggest innovative ways of disseminating mobile media and polling for rich media responses at blue plaque sites.