Manito
Brief │ The Content is the Object
Project leader │ Jozeph Forakis
Project Assistant │ Maria José Fabregat
Group Members │ Sung Hwa Chang, Sung Won Park, Trusha Sawant
Idea │ Problem Setting │ Context
- About Media
These days the meaning of media paradigm is changing from Mass Media to Personal media. It’s simply because that individual has been developing his own strong character and standardized mess media cannot satisfy each individuals. Personal media is more dynamic and active between provider and user to give and take data and feedbacks.
- About Travel
Travel is an oasis to moderns who dreams of escape from the stern realities. In the past, people keep their own memories with souvenirs. However, now, people keep their memories with souvenirs and share experience with Internet.
- Media and Travel
Travel is the most interesting subject in the on-line networking. If travelers can broadcast their own interests and get feedbacks on real-time, these sharing data could be more specific, the contents of data could be more various and the relationship between provider and user would be closer.
What is it?
While travelling, people like to collect some souvenirs to keep memory of good moments and share them with family and friends. What happens if we get the memory of another person as souvenir? Manito is a system to share memories and experiences between travellers that becomes a sort of personal broadcasting system. This system is formed by two elements; a ‘mother device’ and a ‘media mite’. Each ‘mother device’ can be linked to more than one ‘media mite’. Travellers can buy their own Manito device. During their journey, travellers can find some Media Mites Wall. There they can leave some of their media mites and exchange them with the ones of somebody else. The former owner of the media mite is always connected with it and she/he can change the data displayed. The present owner can give some feedback or ask something to the former in real time. The present owner can update information related to her/his travel plan on the go. Media mites can be cloned.
How it works?
- Physical movements
The movement of media mites is based on trust. While travelling, one leaves his media mite on sharing board and then he can take one of other users’ media mites. By people’s own interests, media mites can be changed multi-million times.
- Data movements
Once one takes other’s media mite, he can get all data from original owner of media mite. And he also sends his data to his media mite takers on real-time, while travelling. Also exchanging opinions are possible.
- Playing games
When someone gets data from others, to save those data, he has to give feedbacks with grading the data. Also when somebody recreates his media mite, he can get certain extra credits for that. Eventually it’s like playing with credits. With more credits, user could create more media mites or use data from others.
Value & Potential
Manito can be used for personal broadcasting of which each individual are interested in.
Manito can help disabled to be able to travel around by saving other’s travelling roots.
With sharing data, user can make credits so that more games could be developed.
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