Food for your eyes [3] - Locast from MIT Mobile Experience Lab on Vimeo.

Locast is an innovative platform for sharing and discovering location-based user-generated videos and production quality multimedia content provided by RAI New Media. The project is fruit of an advanced research carried out by MIT Mobile Experience Lab and RAI New Media on the future of mobile contents related to the urban environment. The aim of the research to envision how RAI - Italian broadcast TV - can rethink its role in the global New Media scenario as a provider of innovative media format, content, and cutting-edge services to be experienced on next-generation smartphones.
LOCAST incorporates a combination of Mobile and Wearable Computing elements supported by a distributed Web application. Contents gathered from RAI TV historical archives and User-Generated ones are linked to physical locations in Venice in order to be accessible to all those visiting the space.

The project shifts the innovation from the wide-spread concept of Web2.0 to the promising scenario of Space2.0 that keeps the physical and social characteristics of the Italian cities and augment them with the potential offered by pervasive computing.

MIT Mobile Experience Lab is recruiting volunteers to participate in a user test to take place in Venice (Italy) between July 2 and July 10, 2009. During these days, the team will be available to explain the project and distribute enabled smartphones to interested visitors. Participants will be given complimentary access to the City Wifi network and gadgets from the Digital Citizenship initiative, courtesy of the City of Venice. Those interested participating, you can fill out their recruitment form here

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