You are travelling in a new town somewhere in Europe. You are walking down the street, and suddenly you notice an interesting, old building and a bar on the corner. You would like to know what building it is, and why it is offset diagonally, and whether the bar would serve a kind of lunch that would match your current mood. You connect your mobile to a new kind of city guide service. Would you like to hear the history of that building along with other stories about the neighbourhood? How about the stories other travellers have told about the food, service, and atmosphere of the bar? If you don't like the tone and voice of the tourist guide, you are free to change the guide.

Project goals

• Create a digital Guided Tour concept for a mobile device.

• Create innovative new ideas on story telling in Mixed Reality.

• A functional demo of some of the possible contents for a Guided Tour.

Team size

2-5 persons

Time period

The project constitutes full-time work for the project team between 18.5. - 31.8.2009.

Interaction between stakeholder and project team

The work will mainly be done at the Demola 'office' in Tampere, Finlayson. There will be regular weekly meetings with the company partner and the team members. There will also be other forms of communication and guidance available to the team. The team will report the work by writing a team blog on the Demola web service.

Support (supervision & financial)

Demola staff will supervise the reports and by the end of each month the team will also write a one page summary of the reported project actions, methods used, and results.

Main contact person with email address

Ville Kairamo, ville.kairamo@hermia.fi