Abstract     

Rapid Authoring of Mediascapes (Full Paper) Richard Hull1, Ben Clayton2, and Tom Melamed2 1 Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 2 University of Bristol

Ubiquitous computing promises to enable new classes of application. In this paper, we present research intended to accelerate the exploration of the space of possible application values by enabling domain specialists to develop, deploy and evaluate experimental applications, even if they do not have programming skills. We present a framework for the rapid authoring of mediascapes, a com-mercially important class of media-oriented, context-sensitive, mobile applica-tions. A case study is described in which two artists without prior experience of ubiquitous computing successfully and quickly deployed experimental me-diascapes in an urban square. A discussion of their experience suggests future work aimed at closing the gap between application emulation and reality.