Users will be able to navigate from Grange Park down to John Street through a GPS-enabled wayfinding system. Along the way they will interact with graffiti-like projections and installed artifacts, watch short videos, and create with interactive audio dub components.

Through this BLE installation Portage will investigate how cultural content delivery is made possible by emerging multi-capability mobile devices. These devices include cell phones, handhelds and PDAs with WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and GSM access. Portage will also examine the processes by which these technologies can be used in conjunction with each other and with environmental sensors and displays to move the mobile experience 'beyond the phone' and to create an interactive and immersive environment.

Funded through Canadian Heritage New Media Research and Development Initiative OCAD has formed a strategic partnership with leading media production enterprises, cultural sector organizations and network providers. The Lab will collaborate with these industries by capitalizing on the outcomes from successful past research projects and working towards creating scaleable commercial products.

Principal Investigators:
Paula Gardner, PhD
Assistant Dean, Ontario College of Art & Design

Geoffrey Shea
Professor, Ontario College of Art & Design