WHISPERS OF THE CITY

A location based wearable prototype that allows people to explore a city based on the notes that people leave behind.

Role: Designer, Prototyper, Researcher, Filmmaker

A voice and location based wearable project which allows people to leave intimate voice notes around a city for others to find. Those who find can explore the city not based on guides or maps but instead on the personal stories told by those who have intimate connections with that very city.

To emphasize audio based navigation, the mobile interface only allows for recording, and listening to saved whispers. The desktop interface allows for more complicated actions such as organizing found notes and heat maps of new locations.

To place the audio within the space, I prototyped a spacial audio system which fades in and out as you approach the area in which the whisper was left.