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Hi I;m Ju Hyeon Kim my major is political science. I took ceramics class at highschool.

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==== In this response, I will ask some of the basic questions that are also mentioned by Hanna Schraffenberger’s interview article. My understanding of the article might not be sufficient to generate an in-depth analysis of the article since Manovich’s article was on something that I have never thought of, experienced or read about. The concept of ‘augmented space’ was extremely strange for me, so I could not take in all of points that the author was making. However, I will still try my best to discuss about the article with the limited knowledge I have. ==== ==== I was stuck right in the beginning when I read the title of the article. The title ‘The poetics of augmented space’ certainly did not gave me a general idea about what the article will be about. I habitually put much emphasis on going over and understanding the title, author’s background and preface when I start reading any written materials in order to grasp the big picture of what the writing is going to be about. However, in this case, it was really hard to get even a basic idea of the article by reading the title. So I moved on to the abstract hoping to be able to understand better. ==== ==== Since it is crucial to fully understand at least what the ‘augmented space’ is, I read the abstract part of the article many times. The author started off with a definition of augmented space. He states that augmented space is “the physical space overlaid with dynamically changing information, multimedia in form and localized for each user.” The concept became clearer as the author gave examples such as “shopping or entertainment areas or other spaces where various information can be accessed wirelessly.” Augmented space, to my understanding, is an ‘augmented’ space because on top of physical space created, there are also information, emotion and conversation, etc. that are being exchanged by people. ==== ==== With the concept of ‘augmented space’, I tried to answer some of the questions that are raised by the author. The author asks, “does the form become irrelevant, being reduced to functional and ultimately invisible support for information flows?”. I would argue that the form still remains significant even though its primary purpose is to support the information flow. I think that the form itself plays a crucial role in delivering information. Different forms will produce different information. For example, smaller sized electronic device such as smartphones today show different versions of online media than the devices with larger screens. Magazine firms have produced their periodicals that fits the smaller screen but the difference is not just the size. They have come up with short articles that are filled with mostly visual illustrations and less written words. This case reflects how the form has impacts on changing the ways that information is being delivered. ==== ==== Hanna mentions the relation between augmented reality and cinema. For me, one thing that I could easily relate with augmented reality is cinema since films today show a number of virtual objects that are produced through tasks using computer technology. It is easy to imagine how the augmented reality technology has impacted our society when we think of how many people go crazy about virtual reality applied in movies; from the Starwars series to Martian recently. Although the specificities of augmented reality are very complicated, how the technology can be applied to real life proves that it is very useful in our lives. ====

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In this augmented reality project, my team has created an ‘augmented reality journey’ that leads to finding a treasure. Each member took photos in the Smith Hall 4th and 5th floor near the classroom and when scanned with Aurasma App, the photos show augmented images that guide the viewers to find the treasure, which is hidden somewhere in the building. The viewers will start with a first image to scan. If scanned, the augmented image that comes up will be an important hint that helps the viewers to know which image to scan next. They will keep following the hints and scanning the images until they finally find the treasure.

I took two photos to be used for hints to find the treasure. One is a photo of 6 light switches. To produce an augmented image, I have used Photoshop and Aftereffects to color the switches and the numbers that float around the switches. The first three switches were colored in green, red, yellow respectively. Also, I have put six digits and made them to fly around the switches. The digits are colored in six different colors including green, red, blue, etc. I designed as such to make the viewer to come up with a certain three-digit number, which can be used to guide them to find the next image. The color of the first switch matches with the color of 5. And the color of the second switch matches with the color of 0. So the answer I wanted the viewers to come up with was number 501. And this number, 501, is an important hint to finding the next image to scan.

My second photo is a one that shows room number 501. The viewers, if they had successfully understood my hint, would have came up with the number 501. The viewers then would have chosen this room-number sign to scan on. If they scan on this, they will see a green eye slowly fading in. I have used Photoshop to make this gif image. The green eye is a direct hint for the viewers to look for an image nearby that has a relation to a green eye. On a wall on the fifth floor, there is the image used by another member, Jinwen, that shows a poster that has a similar but different green eye image. If successfully found, the image will be scanned by viewers hoping to get another hint for their treasure hunt.