Final Project Assignment for the TechniCity MOOC at Coursera.
U-Drift was inspired by the successful psychogeographical app Dérive developed by Babak Fakhamzadeh and Eduardo Cachucho. By not suggesting a specific route, like most common city-guide or GPS apps do, U-Drift allows users to discover Utrecht in an experiential manner that is designed according to their personal interest. Thus, it is possible to find out the hidden secrets of the city, that it wouldn’t have been found otherwise.
TechniCity hosted a student project competition with students and instructors voting on those with the most potential to be crowdfunded. Students were able to post their project with an explanation of how crowdfunding will help them complete their project. The projects were judged based on three primary criteria: 1) comprehensibility, 2) creativity, and 3) usability in real-planning world. U-Drift was selected among the top 25 and is included in the TechniCity e-book. The instructors hoped that th
