The basic concept
bibPhone
was developed at a workshop with librarians in the interactive children's
library project.
See a concept video of the bibPhone here
(6mb)
The bibPhone concept enables children to annotate physical material with
digital recordings; children are able to add oral comments to books by
placing the bibPhone over a RFID tag on the book; putting an ear to the
book enables hearing the comments recorded by others. The concept originated
from children’s reluctance towards doing written reviews, and the
fact that more and more libraries are adopting RFID technology on information
material. The bibPhone can be used for “treasure hunting”
for messages in books or enabling children to have a secret information
layer attached to selected books can also be imagined. Furthermore the
concept is not restrained to information materials but could also be used
with regard to adding RFID tags to specific elements in the physical environment,
enabling new forms of play and information exchange.
Two bibPhones have been developed to a full functional prototypes both
regarding hardware and software to test different possibilities of use.
Prototype
#1
has been in a test period at the library
of silkeborg
.
Whereas both prototype
#1
and prototype
#2
have been tested at the main
municipality library in aarhus.
See a demo video explaining the two prototypes here
(24mb)
Read a paper on the bibPhone here
