1. Copyright, 1996 © Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc. GuideShoes Paul Nemirovsky Interactive Cinema Group MIT Media Lab Part of Aesthetic Forms of Expression for Direct Information Delivery (AFEDID) project

2. Intro Your shoes protect you from rain, heat, and even make you look better… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ They have done that successfully for the last 4000 years… ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Isn’t it time for them to start doing something new?

3. What are GuideShoes?  GuideShoes will tell you where to go and how to go…  All you need to do is listen…  …To the information you get

4. Information  Music patterns evolve over time  Emotion = Information  Create or choose your own mood-dependent patterns

5. Applications  Kids’ navigation - not getting lost  People with orientation problems - raw navigation help  Artistic uses - Collaborative MusicWalks, more  Sociological tool - gathering historical data  Extensible to more than mere walking

6. Technology  Satellite --> Differential GPS  DGPS --> RF wireless link --> Base station  Base station --> RF --> Music synthesizer

7. Future  Music Basketball  EmoCloth  Others

8. Start the Game  Put on your GuideShoes and EmoClothes - and never again perceive your environment the same way…  Thank you for reading - the next version is all music!