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      Creating Magic on Mobile

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      Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2013) (EVA)
      Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2013)
      29 - 31 July 2013
      Mobile, Audiovisual, Geolocation, Locative, History, Folklore, Edwardian London
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            Abstract

            The cultural heritage sector has too often focussed on the delivery of greater amounts of information via mobile, rather than using the affordances of the technology and stories behind the content to create rich experiences. This paper will look at a project that attempted to go beyond the usual gallery guide and break out of the museum itself to create an innovative, playful and even magical experience on mobile. Magic in Modern London was conceived by Amblr and Wellcome Collection, and inspired by an exhibition that brought together five hundred amulets originally collected by Edward Lovett in London at the beginning of the Twentieth century. The exhibition itself, by Felicity Powell, was an artistic interpretation of and reaction to the amulets themselves, but those amulets also suggested a different approach. Since Edward Lovett had recorded stories about many of them in his book, Magic in Modern London, they also had both narrative and location. This indicated a project that would resite the amulets and their stories back into their original place of collection, and the natural platform to achieve this was on mobile, using GPS.

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            Conference
            July 2013
            July 2013
            : 1-8
            Affiliations
            [0001]Freelance

            London
            [0002]Amblr

            Oxford
            [0003]Wellcome Collection

            London
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/EVA2013.1
            044a52bc-f082-458b-ba0c-a793e9c2dc00
            © Martha Henson et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2013), London, UK

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            Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2013)
            EVA
            London, UK
            29 - 31 July 2013
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2013)
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

            Self URI (article page): https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/EVA2013.1
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            Categories
            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            History,Edwardian London,Geolocation,Mobile,Audiovisual,Locative,Folklore

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