“Keitai Trail!” is a collaborative media practice, designed to collect, connect and visualize people’s stories through a game-like activity. We used “keitai(mobile phone in Japanese” as a main activity tool, not only in order to invite people in their most familiar setting, but also to explore a new way of using mobile phones for media expression.
We developed rules for their activity.Participant should fill in the blank space of question with his/her own word.Then give a free talk explaining the word.From the story, create a new question for the next participant. Storytelling activities were recorded with the mobile movie kit. Finally, we created a connected network of people’s stories and visualized them in a collaborative expression map.
-“Keitai Trail!” in ARS Electronica 2008
We held a “keitai trail” workshop in ARS Electronica in 2008 to collect and connect more than 250 stories on people’s “mobiles”. Please visit the following website to view whole stories and movie clips.
http://keitaitrail.ai.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
-“Keitai Trail!” in Media Literacy Project
As a collaborative program with Namkai broadcasting station in Ehime prefecture, we utilized the “keitai trail!” format in a media literacy project with teenagers in 2008. For more information, please visit the following website.
http://mahorama.ai.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/