Designing for the impossible: Creating a mobile application to track time travel

Buzzo, Daniel; Jonas, David

Abstract

In this paper we discuss the development of TimeTravel, a mobile application for tracking personal time dilation. Time dilation is the relativistic warping effect on time that velocity and gravity produces.
Predicted by Einstein's Special theory of relativity (1905) and verified by practical experiment, (Hafele and Keating 1972) time dilation affects all things in motion, anywhere in the Universe (Reinhardt 2007). Our project was to develop a simple application aimed at smart watches that could communicate the imperceptible effects of time dilation on a user's everyday activities in an easy to understand, meaningful way. We describe the development and consider what happens when we attempt to visualise the imperceptible

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2015)
• Start Date: Jul 7, 2015
• End Date: Jul 9, 2015
• Publication Date: Jul 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: May 26, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 14, 2016
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: time, time dilation, visualisation, wearable computing, interaction design
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/831752
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/eva2015.12
• Additional Information: Additional Information : Paper originally presented at Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2015) and published online at http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/eva2015.12; Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2015)
• Contract Date: Mar 14, 2016