The 9/11 Memorial and technology (photos)
In New York City, the memorial to the victims of the September 11 attacks isn't even a year old, but already 2 million people have visited. Technology helps many of them navigate around.
Flower by the North Memorial Pool
The memorial is in the most somber place possible: in and around the former location of the World Trade Center towers that came crumbling down. The most striking elements are the two memorial pools, located in the actual footprints of the original North and South World Trade Center towers.
As visitors walk around the site, they can use two mobile apps to help orient themselves, find the names of specific 9/11 victims, hear stories about victims, and much more.
In this picture, a flower has been placed alongside the North Memorial Pool.
Guy Barzvi
Here, we see the app showing the profile for Guy Barzvi alongside his name on the Memorial itself.
Barzvi profile
Barzvi Web profile
Barzvi profile sent by text
Adjacencies
Here, we see that Guy Barzvi's name is located adjacent to that of Gregory E. Rodriguez and Marina Romanova Gertsberg. Visitors are not able to see the reason for the request to place the names adjacent to each other.