KEY AREA | GAME DESIGN AND GAMIFICATION
CASE:
EXPERIMEDIA EXPLORES NEW DIGITAL REAL-TIME SERVICES How can we understand the future of the internet from a user perspective? Which new services can we expect? The EU-funded research project Experimedia uses three venues – in Spain, Austria and Greece – as experimental sites to get to some answers. “We want to understand which kinds of new real-time services the future internet will hold,” says Peter Ljungstrand at Interactive Institute. The project has an open-ended approach, and new project participants will be added as the project evolves.
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he Experimedia project complements the larger eu program fire – Future Internet Research and Experimentation. But while fire focuses on the technical aspects of the future internet, the goal of Experimedia is to take a user-centric perspective and explore opportunities in different contexts. The project
asks questions like ‘How can the new technologies be used?’ and ‘How are different services experienced?’ Three disparate sites are used as experimental settings. Schladming in Austria is an alpine ski resort, interested in exploring new ways of creating value for their visitors. The High Performance Center of Catalonia
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Photo: Jan Zach
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