Section outline

  • Marcelo Milrad and Aris Alissandrakis from Media Technology Department at LNU are running a new activity with the Vaxjo kommun (contact person: Jonna Wehlin) regarding the use of AR and novel interaction techniques for public engagement [in particular, ask the public to vote on four different options regarding what to do with the future Ringsberg/Kristinebergs development].

    This content was the demo that Aris showed in the first kickoff:

    * Initially the activity was going to take place during the "digital

    week" (end of April) but instead it will be launched in the end of May (Vårstad weekend) and will be active during the entire summer

    * At the time being, the project is internally and tentatively called PEAR (Augmented Reality for Public Engagement), not sure if we will keep the name :)

    * According to Jonna, there might be a small newspaper article closer to the launch of the project

    * Please note that the technology that was developed for this activity can be easily reused and re purposed for other future projects -- the data that are visualised don't only need to come from participating people, but could also be from websites, sensor values etc.