This document summarizes selected portfolio projects by David Boardman from 2009-2010. It describes 4 projects: 1) GreenWheel, which developed smart mobility scenarios for Boston. 2) Locast Travels, which designed a location-based media experience for tourists in Venice. 3) in.fondo.al.mar, an interactive information visualization about toxic ship sinkings in the Mediterranean. 4) Locast Civic Media, a project exploring hyper-local and participatory mobile media in Porto Alegre, Brazil. For each project, it provides details on the concept, design process, prototypes, and outcomes.

1. David Boardman
Selected portfolio projects 2009-2010

2. Selected projects 2009-10
01. GreenWheel
Vision, Scenarios
02. Locast Travels
Experience design
03. in.fondo.al.mar
Interactive information visualization, hands-on
04. Locast Civic Media
Field study

3. 01. GreenWheel | Smart mobility & ubiquitous computing scenarios
http://mobile.mit.edu/greenwheel/
‣ Collaboration with Smart Cities Group
‣ MIT Media Lab Sponsors’ Week
‣ Scenarios for Smart Mobility and Ubiquitous Computing

4. ‣ 1-month team project (Deployment in Boston - April 2009)
‣ Concept
‣ Interaction Design
‣ Visual identity
‣ Flash-based interactive prototypes
‣ Video shooting direction

6. 1/5 - Research

7. 2/5 - Charrette + Clusters

8. 3/5 - Storyboards & Requirements

9. 4/5 - Interaction Design

10. 5/5 - Video making

11. Scenarios selection
Distributed data sensing: http://vimeo.com/4170976
Dynamic bike routing / allocation: http://vimeo.com/4171200
Peer-to-peer freight / Micro-freight: http://vimeo.com/4171195

13. 02. Locast Travels | Location-based media & travel experience
http://locast.mit.edu/travels/
‣ 5-months project (deployment in Venice - July 2009)
‣ Project leader (coordinating a team of 8 + relations with sponsors & supporters)
‣ Design research
‣ Concept
‣ User Experience Design
‣ Visual identity & Communication

14. Partnerships
RAI - Italian Public Broadcast City of Venice.
TV & Radio.
RAI is the shared historical memory of Italy. Quintessential space for cultural,
A unique archive collecting 60+ years of content. historical, architectural value. And
mass tourism.

15. Brief
01. Envision the role of a Broadcast TV in XXI century
In relation with people, information and physical spaces
02. Rethink the tourist experience from a pervasive media perspective

16. Field research
RAI archives Observations / Interviews in Venice

17. Desk research
Location-based services
Geo-social networks
Mobile experiences in tourist / travel contexts

18. Analysis & Goals
Connect RAI patrimony with the Extend the travel experience.
Italian cities heritage. Consider travel as a narration.
Actively involve the audience.

19. Strategy | Broadcast TV company in the 21 st century
Leveraging on networked tools
Production model Production model
Centralized Hybrid (RAI + UGC)
Content distribution / access Content distribution / access
One-to-many Many-to-many
Socialization role Socialization role
Aggregation around TVs Aggregation around individuals’ social networks
Relation with physical spaces Relation with physical spaces
Indirect Direct / Pervasive

20. Strategy | Venice and tourism
Rethinking the travel experience
Visit guides Visit guides
One-fits-for-all Personalized
Experience Experience
Visit-specific Holistic
Media & social activity Media & social activity
Individual - Small social circles Shared / Collective

21. Locast | Location-based casting & travel experience
Connects people, physical spaces and related content.
Authoring and exploring location-based media.
Covers the travel experience.

22. Personas & Use cases | Foreign tourists, Italian tourists, locals

23. Interactions
Clustering features

24. Experience | 4 phases in travel experience

25. Touch-points | .01 - Organizing the visit
Locast Travels website
Where Experience Media
At home/office, connecting to Locast Create Locast account / Connect Watch casts (RAI archive, travelers
Travels website Facebook account pages, real-time uploads)
Set up and edit profile Download eBooks
Prepare itineraries for the visit Download Locast podcasts from
Add places to favorites list iTunes
Follow other travelers experiences
(real-time or thru personal page)

26. Touch-points | .02 - Travel to destination
iPod, Tablet / eReader
Where Experience Media
Airport, airplane, train, bus, car Remain informed on the conditions of Read eBooks
the visit Watch Locast podcasts
Access information on the visit
experience

27. Touch-points | .03 - Visit
Locast Travels website
Where Experience Media
In Venice, using Locast Travels Create / Edit itineraries Casts and status updates
website Share the experience with friends
along Facebook / Twitter

28. Touch-points | .03 - Visit
Locast Travels mobile application
Where Experience Media
In Venice, using Locast Travels Mobile RAI archives
Follow itineraries, create new or follow
application Locast users’ casts
other users’ itineraries
Venice guides’ casts
Explore the city and the location-based
media provided by RAI and other
Locast users
Record casts and share to the Locast
community
Geo-tag and save places that you like

29. Touch-points | .03 - Visit
Locast Travels wearable device
Standalone prototype
Experience Media
Navigate and orientate in Venice Wearable data visualization
(radar-visualization, haptic feedback) (itineraries and points-of-interest)
Watch casts RAI + UGC content

30. Touch-points | .04 - Post-visit
Locast Travels website
Where Experience Media
At home Maintain an online memory of the visit Personal Locast page (recorded casts,
Share the experiences with friends / favorite casts, itineraries, trails, tagged
Recommendations places)

31. Touch-points | .04 - Post-visit
Locast Travels networked souvenir
Where Experience Media
At home Maintain an emotional link with Personal casts
Venice Real-time contributions

32. Information architecture | Web app.

33. Wireframes | Mobile app.

34. Wireframes | Web app.

35. Visual identity | Connectivity, Location-based, Sharing, Hybrid content

36. UIs | Dynamic & static pages

37. UIs | Mobile-Web APIs & Interactions + Facebook Connect

38. UIs | Mobile app - J2ME devices

39. Podcasts and eBooks

40. Prototyping | Electronics & requirements

41. Prototyping | Design, prototyping, implementation

42. Prototyping | Visualizations modalities, testing, assemblage

43. Communication

45. 03. in.fondo.al.mar | Interactive information visualization
http://infondoalmar.info
‣ Independent media arts & activism project
‣ Interaction Design
‣ Visual identity
‣ Web development (xHTML + Javascript + PHP + mySQL + Google APIs + ...)

46. About
‣ Data-driven journalism / Information-visualisation
‣ “Navi dei veleni” scandal - Toxic ships sunk in the Mediterranean
‣ Since 1979 over 70 ships suspected of carrying toxic and radioactive waste
‣ Eco-mafia: dark side of the supply-chains - chemical, pharmaceutical, nuclear
production process leftovers
‣ Archival research at Lloyd’s Register of Shipping - London

47. Design goals
‣ Make the invisible as visible (bringing the poisons afloat)
‣ Intuitive toolkit to sparkle attention and civic engagement / investigations
‣ Open-data and participatory

48. ‣ Launched in November 2009
‣ Information-visualisation toolkit:
‣ satellite maps of incidents
‣ time-line widget
‣ aggregated statistics
‣ files
‣ Emerging patterns: Sinking locations, Routes, Cargoes

49. Mobile
‣ Mobile Augmented Reality - August 2010 (iPhone and Android)
‣ Browsing & reading the territory

50. ‣ Ars Electronica 2010 - “Repair, ready to pull the lifeline”
http://new.aec.at/repair/en/program/repair-the-environment/

52. 04. Locast Civic Media | Hyper-local and participatory mobile media
http://locast.mit.edu/civic/
‣ 2-months project (deployment in Porto Alegre - BR)
‣ Collaboration with PUCRS + Support Motorola, RBS, TIM
‣ Project leader (team of 5 + relations with supporters)
‣ Concept generation and development
‣ Interaction Design
‣ Workshop coordination (online and in Porto Alegre)
‣ Field study

53. Locast platform iteration | Open-APIs scalable platform
Web Mobile (J2ME & Android) Ad-hoc hardware
Web + Mobile APIs Mobile+Extension BT stack
Reputation system Messaging layer Wearable devices
Wiki-alike versioning system Location-based media External sensors
Itinerary creation Networked editing tools Ad-hoc features devices
Mapping Navigation tools
OpenSocial / Facebook / Twitter Mapping

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Civic Media: Porto Alegre (Brazil) - November 2009

55. Locast Civic Media | Brief
‣ Design tools for individuals and communities to support
civic engagement and participatory journalism

56. Research
London 2005 bombings NYC 2009 - US Airways flight ditching in Hudson River
Baghdad 2006 - Saddam Hussein’s execution Tehran 2009 - “Green movement” protests
Virginia Tech 2007 - Campus shootings

57. Analysis & Problem setting
‣ Increasing mobile cameras ubiquity How can we leverage on mobile media to improve social bonds
‣ Increasing cameras performances and foster
‣ Pervasive connectivity ‣ civic knowledge circulation
‣ Access to mobile social networks ‣ hyper-local conversations among communities
‣ Networked circulation of media

58. Locast Civic Media
Platform details
Web Mobile
‣ Individual reporting (casts)
‣ Networked video-editing
‣ Collaborative reporting (projects) - casts grouped by topic or location or both
‣ Geo-semantic tagging system
‣ Location-based conversations

59. Locast Civic Media
Mobile UIs

60. Locast Civic Media
Mobile UIs
Networked Video Editing
‣ Annotate
‣ Order
‣ Trim

61. Locast Civic Media
Field study
Apparatus Method
‣ Porto Alegre - PUCRS ‣ Demo & setup
‣ 10 days ‣ Participants around the city
‣ 36 participants (25 students + 11 ‣ Walkthrough presentations
professional journalists)
‣ Shadowing observations
‣ Semi-structured interviews in Porto
Alegre on the experience
‣ Semi-structured interviews through
Skype (2 weeks after)

62. Locast Civic Media
Content analysis
Elements
Content
‣ Subject
Social
‣ Urban / Social context
‣ Interactions with citizens
Semiotics
‣ Narration style
‣ Photographic language
‣ Narration patterns along sequences of casts

63. Locast Civic Media
Content analysis
‣ Life captures ‣ Coverage
Unstructured / unplanned content Collection of reports grouped into a project that
http://locast.mit.edu/civic/content/330 conveys different perspectives on a common event
or fact.
http://locast.mit.edu/civic/content/520
‣ Interviews ‣ Point-of-view narrations
Q&A with citizens Common subject typologies, walk-and-talk
http://locast.mit.edu/civic/content/159 narration and photographic style.
http://locast.mit.edu/civic/content/789
‣ Breaking news ‣ Investigations
Unfolding facts or events Projects that capture urban, social and cultural
http://locast.mit.edu/civic/content/223 aspects of the city through direct interactions with
citizens. Ethnographic and social aspects of Porto
Alegre communities.
http://locast.mit.edu/civic/content/470
‣ Sequential narrations
Groups of casts representing a timely evolution of
events related to a certain theme or location.
http://vimeo.com/9212919

65. ‣ Cisco - Connected Home (Scenarios & future casting, Energy management, Green design)
http://www.tinktank.it/portfolio/contents/scenarios/connected-home
‣ Nokia - A day at MIT with NFC (Scenarios & Future casting, Mobile experience, Ubiquitous
computing)
http://www.tinktank.it/portfolio/contents/scenarios/a-day-at-mit-with-nfc/
‣ DARC - Le Voci della Pressa (Interactive exhibition, Memory, Rapid prototyping)
http://www.tinktank.it/portfolio/contents/exhibition/voci-della-pressa/
‣ Ride.Link (Social sustainability, Mobile experience, Wearable)
http://www.tinktank.it/portfolio/contents/mobile-experiences/ridelink/
Other portfolio projects | 2008-2010
http://www.tinktank.it