This document outlines descriptive dimensions for designing mobile media and pervasive media projects. It provides a template with 9 descriptive categories to characterize a project's activity, place, equipment, content, media mode, genre, affect, sociality, and skills. Descriptive dimensions are also defined that can be used to further describe a project, such as levels of immersion, user control, and relation to space/place.

1. Design Dimensions
• Questions to ask when planning a
project
• Developed from expert workshops
• Mobile media – Pervasive media

2. Design Dimensions
• Descriptions and key terms
– discussions on how to control levels of
immersion
– magic moments
• Descriptive dimensions
– Using these to design new applications

3. Descriptive Template
• Activity
• Place
• Equipment
• Content
• Media mode
• Genre
• Affect
• Sociality
• Skills

4. Descriptive Template
• Activity : What your body does; ‘you walk
around there’
• Place : Where does it happen; ‘in Queen
Square’
• Equipment : The visible equipment e.g.
headphones, backpack and ‘the small screen
that you hold’
• Content : What is it about? e.g. ‘personal
stories’

5. Descriptive Template
• Media mode : e.g. sound and still images
• Genre : e.g. history, drama, documentary;
‘the real sounds that happened in that place’
• Affect : How does it make you feel? ‘special
“Magic Moments”, ‘a bit spooky/scary’, ‘like
eavesdropping’

6. Descriptive Template
• Sociality : Is this something you do on your
own or with other people?
• Skills : Do you need any special abilities to do
it ? ‘Its simple to use, easy to learn how to
make it work’

8. Descriptive dimensions
social
private public
solitary shared
production values
“professional” “amateur”
relation to existing experience
augmentation ‘complete’

9. Descriptive dimensions
of space
linearity non-linearity
of time
fixed running time - open running time
permanent installation - one off event
of data depth
one level of data - several levels

10. Descriptive dimensions
of immersion
surface depth
information evocation
of user control
none complete
clear rules unclear rules
of space/place
arbitrary mapping meaningful mapping

11. Descriptive Template
• Activity
• Place
• Equipment
• Content
• Media mode
• Genre
• Affect
• Sociality
• Skills