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Our vision is to create an independent content-distribution system using ubiquitous computing technologies. In this paper, we report on how we implemented mobile computing applications to design and build a content-distribution system using Bluetooth technology in an urban site in order to distribute context-sensitive media. The granularities of our design considerations included the ability to support both annotative and phenomenological locative media projects. GPS surveillance technologies were integrated into our prototype. While we were building the system, we conducted a survey to find out what would induce people to turn their Bluetooth on and what kinds of content they would like to receive. This paper contributes to the field of ubiquitous computing and urban studies through its description of how existing technologies can be combined to provide novel mobile computing applications in the city. In our vision a tram route assumes the guise of a performative terrain where passengers can listen to varied narratives of place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research project demonstrates the technosocial possibilities that result from creating localized mediated spaces or 'meshworks' using Bluetooth in order to publish independently produced content. Bluetooth technology is a double-edged sword. It is a meshwork for sharing media freely between mobile device users in public places such as shopping centres and private spaces such as the home and the workplace. It presents opportunities for the design of innovative creative projects, however technical issues, user acceptance and competition for the user's attention provide continuing challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]