HAUNTED LONDON
Welcome to Haunted London'Haunted London' is a collaborative interactive experience based upon a haunted trail in the heart of old London city. A locative and interactive storytelling experience that promotes the exploration of a ‘Hidden London’.Check out the website:
haramihailidou.com/appweb
Welcome to Haunted London'Haunted London' is a collaborative interactive experience based upon a haunted trail in the heart of old London city. A locative and interactive storytelling experience that promotes the exploration of a ‘Hidden London’.Check out the website:
haramihailidou.com/appweb
Screen shot of Application
GPS Navigation and tracking of user's position automates events allowing ubiquitous interactions.
We use accelerometer technology for innovative interactions that unlock clues of the story throughout the walk.
As you walk the trail, at specific locations you will be required to perform certain tasks unlocking the next part of the trail and narrative as you go along.
What is it?
Haunted London is a locative and interactive storytelling experience based upon a haunted trail in the heart of old London city. It is the intersection between a mobile game, a tour guide and interactive movie.
The user explores an unknown trail starting from St. Paul’s and ending near Farringdon. The trail explores haunted landmarks within this catchment area. The app has been designed for short-term visitors in London city who have seen all the popular sights the city has to offer.
Description of the app:
Our app is story / narrative that’s embedded with a haunted trail in London. As the user walks the trail, at specific locations they are required to perform certain tasks unlocking the next part of the trail and narrative as they go along.
This experience has been designed as a two-user experience to satisfy the safety concerns that individual users may incur. But to make the experience truly immersive, we have ensured that both users have individual experiences, which are collaborative and sequential.
Using Bluetooth the app will synchronize both devices and start the app when they both at the designated start location. The app will then direct them to location one.
Once they reach a location, based on GPS tags the app will start a narration of the story and history behind the location. This process follows for two more locations. As the users leave location three the actual experience of the app kicks in, with our ghost Emma haunting the user’s iphones. Emma soon begins leading the users to next locations. At each of the locations she directs each of them to accomplish a task that together unlock Emma’s hidden story.
Emma is out to get vengeance and needs a medium to move around, which in this case is the user’s iphone.
Competitive Landscape:
Locative apps are the new hot commodity out there right now. In its truest form there is are no direct competitors to our concepts though there are many other apps that offer parts of our experiecne. The Parkman Murder Application based on a historical narrative in Boston and Londinium Application based on landmarks of Roman era London are, who we believe our closest competitors to be. But neither of them are multi users applications nor geo tagged with interactions nor based on a trail aimed at exploring hidden avenues.
Next Steps:
The app as of 6th September is 80% compelete in terms of development till beta test. Our estimated launch date based on the current design is during November first week 2011.
The user explores an unknown trail starting from St. Paul’s and ending near Farringdon. The trail explores haunted landmarks within this catchment area. The app has been designed for short-term visitors in London city who have seen all the popular sights the city has to offer.
Description of the app:
Our app is story / narrative that’s embedded with a haunted trail in London. As the user walks the trail, at specific locations they are required to perform certain tasks unlocking the next part of the trail and narrative as they go along.
This experience has been designed as a two-user experience to satisfy the safety concerns that individual users may incur. But to make the experience truly immersive, we have ensured that both users have individual experiences, which are collaborative and sequential.
Using Bluetooth the app will synchronize both devices and start the app when they both at the designated start location. The app will then direct them to location one.
Once they reach a location, based on GPS tags the app will start a narration of the story and history behind the location. This process follows for two more locations. As the users leave location three the actual experience of the app kicks in, with our ghost Emma haunting the user’s iphones. Emma soon begins leading the users to next locations. At each of the locations she directs each of them to accomplish a task that together unlock Emma’s hidden story.
Emma is out to get vengeance and needs a medium to move around, which in this case is the user’s iphone.
Competitive Landscape:
Locative apps are the new hot commodity out there right now. In its truest form there is are no direct competitors to our concepts though there are many other apps that offer parts of our experiecne. The Parkman Murder Application based on a historical narrative in Boston and Londinium Application based on landmarks of Roman era London are, who we believe our closest competitors to be. But neither of them are multi users applications nor geo tagged with interactions nor based on a trail aimed at exploring hidden avenues.
Next Steps:
The app as of 6th September is 80% compelete in terms of development till beta test. Our estimated launch date based on the current design is during November first week 2011.
This project began as a university group and we plan to make the most exciting locative apps for a variety of target groups. Stay tuned, more are coming!
