DW6-05 (left to right)Liew Hui Ting Lynette U086488AChen Shunnan U086447HTan Suat Ying U073282HJoann Wan U083221R

Layers of old on present, in stills and video recordings

What it should help with? - Help visitors visualize the past in a fuss-free

way

Why it is important? - Meshes present reality with the past

What impact should this technology have? - Personalize your experience and knowledge

of history

Persona of a typical tourist to Singapore

- 53% travel to Singapore with companions

- Interested in culture and heritage – 2 of Top 3 free destinations are Chinatown & Little India

- They rate the cultural experience here 8 out of 10 (STB statistics 2008)

- Likely to take pictures of this nature >

- Pictures as mementos

At a given heritage site: What the typical tourist does depending on level of interest

Photo taking: the one thing both interested an disinterested tourists will do.

Informal survey on the kind of photos taken Look into travel blogs and flikr pictures What is object and purpose of photo-taking The responses are dependent on social

context Likely to take pictures of this nature – posed,

with friends, of landmarks and objects Pictures do not bring out the cultural

significance of the heritage site

Physical context: the who and the what

Target group brought to heritage siteImplication of acknowledging significance

of site

Possible problems encountered:

Language barrierDistractionsOutdoor setting; vulnerability to weather

Social context: Alone, with Friends, or with Family?

Cultural context: explores the photo-taking culture and the reasons behind it

Possible alleviating of one’s social status Peer pressure

• Greater inclination to learning

• Less photographs of oneself

– No incentive – Difficulty in doing so

• Less restraint• More fun, less

‘fun-damental’

• Possibly more restraint• Shift in focus; from

having fun to learning

Taking existing activity of taking photos and using that as our tool to increase cultural awareness of the significance of the place.

Photos taken will have an old image layered over

Altering not just the surroundings but the people themselves opposed to having merely the surroundings altered

Giving the photo the feel of the era, not just the content of the picture

Heritage video trails at each heritage site

Choice of place Blended old and new buildings

Consider various time periods, significant activities, and possible changes of users

Changes of use, entrances, sequence of space

Possible use of existing material e.g. The Cathay Gallery

Secondary considerations Time-lapse photography Trail (with and without clues)

Venue for high society in the late nineteenth century

Movie going culture in the past

Singapore’s legal history

Academia in Singapore Art in Singapore

Tourist comes on site and takes a picture He activates the geotagging function in his

handphone/camera His camera/phone detects the coordinates of the location

he is standing and angle he is standing at vis a vis the building

He goes home to his PC and accesses the website Website picks out pictures with recognised GPS

coordinates The picture of the building gets mapped Old picture of the building is mapped and replaces the new

building on the picture Prior to this all historical images would have undergone 3D

modelling Face-recongition technology is use to cut out the face New picture produced

- Adds to what tourists already do at heritage sites – taking pictures and videos

- The solution is feasible and technologically possible today

- User just have to upload the software automatically generates

- User can store the images, unlike augmented reality

- Personalizes history for each person- Different from the current way of learning

about history – instead of reading, there is more visual input.

- Helps users be inspired on their own terms, showing them the differences and letting them draw their own conclusions

Will our target users be too lazy to upload their pictures and videos?

Will the changes in images spur their interest and thoughts of the historical significance of the building?