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Team 3 – Huat !. Haywood Ho Background: tech start-up, travel industry Fav Chinatown experience: people watching at Chinese New Year markets. May Lo Background: business & finance, avid traveller Fav Chinatown experience: walking tour with URA on Chinese Lantern Festival .
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Team 3 – Huat! • Haywood Ho • Background: tech start-up, travel industry • Fav Chinatown experience: people watching at Chinese New Year markets • May Lo • Background: business & finance, avid traveller • Fav Chinatown experience: walking tour with URA on Chinese Lantern Festival
Bridging gaps in Chinatown experience through storytelling • Impressions of Chinatown: • Touristy • Commercial • Difficult to relate to • "Just not that cool" • How story telling can help: • Authenticity • Engaging & personal • Relevance • Community building
Chinatown Story Caravan • Current apps allow visitors access to maps, info, audio any time anywhere • BUT our app is better by delivering UNIQUE, IMMERSIVE STORIES ON-SITE
Chinatown Story Caravan – demo Story Caravan 講故佬
Chinatown Story Caravan – demo Guided tour Explore FEATURED Chinatown by night Local’s guide to Chinatown Chinatown festivals Traditions and heritage
Guided tour Explore 1 Tour walking route 3 2 Locals’ guide to Chinatown Map .6km Thin Ho Association “I’m from the Thin Ho family. My ancestors… .6km Maxwell Food Centre “My grandma first opened her stall here…” 1 .7km TelokAyerStreet “My great-grandpa lived along this street in 1920.” Map 2 Map 3
Guided tour Explore Map shows location of nearest stories 1 3 Rating, distance 2 4 H Sort by ▼ Map .6km Maxwell Food Centre “My grandma first opened her stall here…” 1 Story categories: Heritage markers, Food, Architecture, Shops/businesses, People .7km TelokAyerStreet “My great-grandpa lived along this street in 1920.” Map 2 1.2 km Map Ying FoFui Kun “This was a Hakka association hall, where…” 3
Maxwell Food Centre 1 Kadayanallur St, 069184 Mo-Su 7am-8pm Bookmark I Immersive mode Rating, recent Story highlights Sort by ▼ “My grandma first opened her stall here in this location in the early 1950s. This was…” “This used to a very side road where the just arrived Cantonese immigrants used…”
Grandma’s chicken rice Language ▼ “My grandma first opened her stall here in this location in the early 1950s. She had just arrived from Fujian province in China,. Not having much education, she decided to open a stall at the newly opened hawker centre, borrowing some of the money from family and friends. This was not easy – she was quite unusual and ahead of her time. In those days, women were not. expected to – in fact…” Rate this story
Maxwell Food Centre 1 Kadayanallur St, 069184 Mo-Su 7am-8pm I Immersive mode Story highlights Sort by ▼ “My grandma first opened her stall here in this location in the early 1950s. This was…” “This used to a very side road where the just arrived Cantonese immigrants used…”
Click to listen to noises of everyday life on the corner of 1952 Trengannu Street Language ▼ Real time camera mode provides on-the-spot immersive experience Click to listen to the story of Uncle Bill, who lived in this building from 1951 - 1958 Click to listen to the story of Ying, a “majie” from Kwantung China Click to listen to how street food has evolved in Chinatown
Click to listen to noises of everyday life on the corner of 1952 Trengannu Street Language ▼ Real time camera mode provides on-the-spot immersive experience Click to listen to the story of Uncle Bill, who lived in this building from 1951 - 1958 Click to listen to the story of Ying, a “majie” from Kwantung China Click to listen to how street food has evolved in Chinatown