Entry #19
GINZA SHOPPAR
Tetsuya Fujioka
An augmented reality navigation app for smartphones, that emphasizes users' destinations by showing enlarged graphical symbols (e.g., brand logos) jumping out of buildings.
Online voter comments:
Blue boxes show positive comments, Red boxes show negative comments.
The length of the striped bar represents the number of people who shared the opinion.
AGAINST (A): Simply emphasizing destinations (with no street directions etc.) is a flawed system of navigation
AGAINST (B): I don't feel this will be used that much, why would people install this app for such little functionality?
AGAINST (C): I don't see how this is relevant to Sony Park
AGAINST (D): This seems like a gimmick, and not really useful for navigation
- Metadata:
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• The degree to which advanced technologies (including IT) are used
3 (Low-tech) 1 - 2 - 3 (High-tech) -
• Site-specificness: The degree to which the idea targets a specific locale
3 (Site-agnostic/universal) 1 - 2 - 3 (Site-specific) -
• Degree of commercial potential
2 (Strictly for public good) 1 - 2 - 3 (May profit some parties involved) -
• Time scale of citizen-led changes to cities enabled by the idea
Not Applicable (Short-term change) 1 - 2 - 3 (Long-term change) -
• Geographic scale of citizen-led changes to cities enabled by the idea
Not Applicable (Small-scale change) 1 - 2 - 3 (Large-scale change) -
• Hurdles toward participation, from a citizen’s perspective
1 (Anyone can participate) 1 - 2 - 3 (Requires expertise, time, money, etc.)