Project Number
- 195
Title
- Multiple Identities MAP
Description
- Avatar-driven interactive digital map of New York City.
Contact
- Richard Yelle
Affiliation
- Parsons School of Design
Address
- 66 Fifth Avenue
- New York, New York 10011
- yeller@newschool.edu
WWW
Year
- 1997
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "Multiple Identities is a digital map of New York City that incorporates avatars (visual embodiments of concepts, personas, identities, or intelligence in virtual reality) acting as urban guides who lead travelers through unique experiences in the metropolis."
- "Unlike typical navigation tools, the Multiple Identities Map acknowledges and reports on urban quantities that are less quantifiable. It collects and dispenses information that is inherently qualitative and subjective."
- "Inspired by the research of Howard Gardner (The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Leading Minds) and others, [the designers] have identified unique personae that emphasize multipel viewpoints as a way to identify and digest information."
Sight
- graphics workstation, projection
Sound
- amplified sound
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 206 - avatar / agent
Secondary
- 308 - information / commerce
Remarks
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