Urban Alphabets lets the users capture photos of letters in their environment and reuse these typographical elements to write own messages (called Urban Postcards).
features:
- add letters to an Urban Alphabets
- photo letters are geotagged and sent to a website: www.ualphabets.com
- ability add up to 8 Urban Alphabets
- change language and name of the current alphabet (see below for available language versions)
- write Urban Postcards (messages encoded using the current Urban Alphabet)
- save and share Urban Alphabets and Urban Postcards using Facebook, Twitter and Mail
language versions:
- Finnish/Swedish
- English/Portugese
- Danish/Norwegian
- German
- Spanish
- Russian
- Latvian
This app is part of a Masters thesis research at Media Lab Helsinki. It is an app prototype that is available for research purposes in the App Store. Also this App will be used to contribute to the Urban Alphabets project during the Connecting Cities Networks Events in different cities during the year 2014.