The SHARC Project: Investigating Technology Support for the Shared Curation of Local History in a Rural Community
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Computing & Communications
Abstract
Shared sense of history is one of the keystones of sense of community (McMillan & Chavis, 1986) and supporting sense of community is a key societal challenge.
In 2006, began work with the rural Wray village community to co-design and then deploy the Wray Photo display (Taylor and Cheverst, 2009). The Photo display proved very popular with residents who uploaded over 1500 photos to the system across a range of categories, with the most popular being hitoric photos. Over the last six years the photo displays have been situated in key settings within the village including: the post-office; the village hall, the village pub (called the George and Dragon) and the village cafe. Feedback from design workshops (and a comments book placed next to the displays) have demonstrated the potential of situated displays and community generated content for supporting sense of community. However, feedback from the community also highlighted the need for tools to provide both greater inclusivity (e.g. for some of the more elderly members of the community) and also for enabling the community to share and co-curate digital narratives (the delightful "The first chips in Wray" story for example) and accounts/collections of local history relating to the village from a range of sources and perspectives.
The central aim of the proposed research is to co-design these tools with the community and, through longitudinal study, to explore their adoption and appropriation by the community.
It is important that the design of these tools is done in a participatory fashion to help ensure both their appropriateness to the requirements posed by the broad community (given the range of technical abilities for example) and also to foster a greater sense of ownership on behalf of the community.
Furthermore, a 'one-size-fits-all' tool is unlikely to be appropriate given the range of contexts of use, e.g. curating content for consumption by established members of the village community vs. curating content for consumption by residents new to the village vs. curating content for consumption by visitors. Some tools may be mobile applications that support the capture of content in-situ, whilst others may involve the tailoring of existing technologies within the village, for example modifying the colour photocopier in the village Post Office in order to support the simple scanning of historic village newspaper articles.
In terms of tools to support the consumption of these narratives we envisage that situated displays provide suitable properties and affordances (based on our positive experiences with the Wray Photo Displays). Our experiences with situated displays have taught us that their placement is crucial (e.g. siting the display where the audience has due time to interact) and again needs to be done in collaboration with the community in order to promote sense of ownership and avoid inappropriate placements. But we also consider mobile tools as candidate technologies for supporting the consumption of locative media, e.g. enabling a member of the village, out on a ramble, to learn about the historic places she approaches. This could be through a push or pull based approach and involve viewing or listening to the narratives relating to the place. It is anticipated that while consuming such narratives, users will also wish to be able to respond, e.g. contributing stories/narratives of their own or by suggesting links with another related place or narrative.
McMillan, D. and Chavis, D. (1986) Sense of community: A Definition and Theory, Journal of Community Psychology, Special Issue: Psychological Sense of Community, I: Theory and Concepts. Volume 14, Issue 1, pp. 6-23.
Taylor, N. and Cheverst, K. (2009). Social Interaction around a Rural Community Photo Display. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 67(12), pp. 1037-1047.
In 2006, began work with the rural Wray village community to co-design and then deploy the Wray Photo display (Taylor and Cheverst, 2009). The Photo display proved very popular with residents who uploaded over 1500 photos to the system across a range of categories, with the most popular being hitoric photos. Over the last six years the photo displays have been situated in key settings within the village including: the post-office; the village hall, the village pub (called the George and Dragon) and the village cafe. Feedback from design workshops (and a comments book placed next to the displays) have demonstrated the potential of situated displays and community generated content for supporting sense of community. However, feedback from the community also highlighted the need for tools to provide both greater inclusivity (e.g. for some of the more elderly members of the community) and also for enabling the community to share and co-curate digital narratives (the delightful "The first chips in Wray" story for example) and accounts/collections of local history relating to the village from a range of sources and perspectives.
The central aim of the proposed research is to co-design these tools with the community and, through longitudinal study, to explore their adoption and appropriation by the community.
It is important that the design of these tools is done in a participatory fashion to help ensure both their appropriateness to the requirements posed by the broad community (given the range of technical abilities for example) and also to foster a greater sense of ownership on behalf of the community.
Furthermore, a 'one-size-fits-all' tool is unlikely to be appropriate given the range of contexts of use, e.g. curating content for consumption by established members of the village community vs. curating content for consumption by residents new to the village vs. curating content for consumption by visitors. Some tools may be mobile applications that support the capture of content in-situ, whilst others may involve the tailoring of existing technologies within the village, for example modifying the colour photocopier in the village Post Office in order to support the simple scanning of historic village newspaper articles.
In terms of tools to support the consumption of these narratives we envisage that situated displays provide suitable properties and affordances (based on our positive experiences with the Wray Photo Displays). Our experiences with situated displays have taught us that their placement is crucial (e.g. siting the display where the audience has due time to interact) and again needs to be done in collaboration with the community in order to promote sense of ownership and avoid inappropriate placements. But we also consider mobile tools as candidate technologies for supporting the consumption of locative media, e.g. enabling a member of the village, out on a ramble, to learn about the historic places she approaches. This could be through a push or pull based approach and involve viewing or listening to the narratives relating to the place. It is anticipated that while consuming such narratives, users will also wish to be able to respond, e.g. contributing stories/narratives of their own or by suggesting links with another related place or narrative.
McMillan, D. and Chavis, D. (1986) Sense of community: A Definition and Theory, Journal of Community Psychology, Special Issue: Psychological Sense of Community, I: Theory and Concepts. Volume 14, Issue 1, pp. 6-23.
Taylor, N. and Cheverst, K. (2009). Social Interaction around a Rural Community Photo Display. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 67(12), pp. 1037-1047.
Planned Impact
Impact summary (academic research)
The project will provide valuable insights into the potential of digital tools and mobile/display based technologies to support the shared curation and consumption of local history. While the deployment domain is that of a rural community, we anticipate that many of the gained understandings and guidelines gained through the work will be transferable to other place-based communities, and a workshop will be held inviting researchers working with other communities to compare their experiences and findings and so and so provide a suitable forum to support the cross fertilisation of ideas.
Other beneficiaries of the work will include the HCI research community in general but particularly those involved in the areas of: community and community generated content, mobile and situated display based technologies and methodologies for 'Research in the Wild'. Indeed, the proposal's explicit aim to co-design and implement an appropriate exit strategy should provide valuable understandings in this under-researched area. Social science can also benefit from 'Community of Practice' data.
Impact summary (commercial private sector)
Impact to the commercial private sector will be supported by the School's KBC (Knowledge Business Centre). One area of potential impact is with digital signage companies such as Amscreen, a company which KBC is currently engaging with. Amscreen is the U.K.'s largest 'Out of Home' media company and we are confident that opportunities for utilising findings from our research with the company will exist and that, given the excellent support facilities offered by the KBC, these opportunities will be maximised to the full. We also anticipate that the mobile tools developed under the project will have clear commercial impact potential and Infolab21 houses a number of SME companies that specialise in mobile application development.
Impact summary (third sector)
The cultural heritage aspects of the proposed research can have significant impact within the museum sector in the medium to long term. We envisage that the shared narratives curated through the project will provide a readily graspable example of a novel and engaging form of 'exhibit' that could provide an exciting complement to the traditionally curated pieces found in museums.
Impact summary (wider public, nation's health and culture)
A key societal challenge is that of supporting sense of community and, in this proposal, we aim to explore how mobile/situated display based technologies and associated tools might foster sense of community within a rural village community. We believe that the insights gained from this work will have significant generalizability and potential to help strengthen community cohesion.
In terms of positive benefits towards the nation's health, the positive relationship between sense of community and subjective well-being (SWB) is presented in (Davidson and Cotter, 1991) who, in summary, state: "Sense of community was significantly related to SWB in all three samples. The effects were especially pronounced for the happiness facet of SWB". The results of the proposed research have significant potential to provide insights that, if taken up by appropriate policy makers, could provide positive impact on the nation's community cohesion (and consequently positive impact on the nation's health).
The project also has clear potential for contributing to the nation's cultural heritage (and fostering engagement in this cultural heritage by the wider public) by exploring ways of 'opening up' the shared collection and curation of content relating to local history. In the short term, the project will impact on residents in Wray (and visitors to Wray) by encouraging reflection on the village's cultural heritage. While in the longer term, positive results gained from the research can be transferred to other place-based communities, initially other towns and villages within Lancashir
The project will provide valuable insights into the potential of digital tools and mobile/display based technologies to support the shared curation and consumption of local history. While the deployment domain is that of a rural community, we anticipate that many of the gained understandings and guidelines gained through the work will be transferable to other place-based communities, and a workshop will be held inviting researchers working with other communities to compare their experiences and findings and so and so provide a suitable forum to support the cross fertilisation of ideas.
Other beneficiaries of the work will include the HCI research community in general but particularly those involved in the areas of: community and community generated content, mobile and situated display based technologies and methodologies for 'Research in the Wild'. Indeed, the proposal's explicit aim to co-design and implement an appropriate exit strategy should provide valuable understandings in this under-researched area. Social science can also benefit from 'Community of Practice' data.
Impact summary (commercial private sector)
Impact to the commercial private sector will be supported by the School's KBC (Knowledge Business Centre). One area of potential impact is with digital signage companies such as Amscreen, a company which KBC is currently engaging with. Amscreen is the U.K.'s largest 'Out of Home' media company and we are confident that opportunities for utilising findings from our research with the company will exist and that, given the excellent support facilities offered by the KBC, these opportunities will be maximised to the full. We also anticipate that the mobile tools developed under the project will have clear commercial impact potential and Infolab21 houses a number of SME companies that specialise in mobile application development.
Impact summary (third sector)
The cultural heritage aspects of the proposed research can have significant impact within the museum sector in the medium to long term. We envisage that the shared narratives curated through the project will provide a readily graspable example of a novel and engaging form of 'exhibit' that could provide an exciting complement to the traditionally curated pieces found in museums.
Impact summary (wider public, nation's health and culture)
A key societal challenge is that of supporting sense of community and, in this proposal, we aim to explore how mobile/situated display based technologies and associated tools might foster sense of community within a rural village community. We believe that the insights gained from this work will have significant generalizability and potential to help strengthen community cohesion.
In terms of positive benefits towards the nation's health, the positive relationship between sense of community and subjective well-being (SWB) is presented in (Davidson and Cotter, 1991) who, in summary, state: "Sense of community was significantly related to SWB in all three samples. The effects were especially pronounced for the happiness facet of SWB". The results of the proposed research have significant potential to provide insights that, if taken up by appropriate policy makers, could provide positive impact on the nation's community cohesion (and consequently positive impact on the nation's health).
The project also has clear potential for contributing to the nation's cultural heritage (and fostering engagement in this cultural heritage by the wider public) by exploring ways of 'opening up' the shared collection and curation of content relating to local history. In the short term, the project will impact on residents in Wray (and visitors to Wray) by encouraging reflection on the village's cultural heritage. While in the longer term, positive results gained from the research can be transferred to other place-based communities, initially other towns and villages within Lancashir
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ORCID iD |
| Keith Cheverst (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Cheverst K
(2015)
Supporting the Mobile In-situ Authoring of Locative Media in Rural Places Design and Expert Evaluation of the SMAT app
in International Journal of Handheld Computing Research
Cheverst K
(2017)
Supporting the consumption and co-authoring of locative media experiences for a rural village community: design and field trial evaluation of the SHARC2.0 framework.
in Multimedia tools and applications
Cheverst K
(2020)
Into the Wild: Beyond the Design Research Lab
Do T
(2014)
LoMAK
Hakkila J
(2019)
Managing complexities and creating innovation through design
| Description | In terms of software, we have developed the SHARC locative media framework comprising a web-based application and an android application that enables non-technical users to design, develop and share locative media experiences (such as walks that navigate defined Points of Interest and Events of Interest which themselves have associated media items) relating to the local history and heritage of rural/nature settings. The locative media produced using the SHARC web application can be downloaded and experienced by users via the SHARC mobile application which runs on Android based smartphones. Furthermore, users can respond to the experience through the same mobile application by submitting their own media, such as photos, audio comments, etc. The requirements and content used for driving the development of the framework have arisen from our longstanding work with the Wray village community, the Lake District National Trust and Lancaster's Military Heritage Group and King's Own Regiment museum. Recent collaborations with the RSA and Lancaster University's History Department are also providing feedback on the suitability of the mobile app for supporting media collection in rural and low-connectivity settings. Through successive field-trials and Lancaster Universities 'Campus in the City' events, significant public engagement was achieved. A key design decision when developing the SHARC framework was support for off-line use and this has proved valuable across our field trials of Locative Media Experiences in the three main settings of: Wray, Lancaster and the English Lake District. It should be noted that even in Lancaster, where data connectivity is available, the support for off-line access to media content stored on the mobile device has been effective in supporting a more engaging and immersive visitor experience (i.e. one in which the user is not required to wait for video content to be buffered on the device etc.). The project's collaboration with Lancaster's Military Heritage Group and museum also highlighted the potential of locative media experiences to compliment rather than replace the practice of the human tour guide and to support an engaging 'in-situ' learning experience. The empirical data from our field-trials have produced important findings for interaction design such as the potential of locative media to support visitor engagement with the cultural landscape in nature settings and the hosting of workshops supported through the SHARC project have helped foster a research community around this area. |
| Exploitation Route | The findings can be taken forward by practitioners of Interaction Design through the publicised design guidelines for developing locative media experiences across a range of settings. In the nature setting, for example, the interaction design guidelines and the SHARC framework can be used in the heritage sector to support individuals and families with their engagement with, and learn about, the cultural landscape and the various communities that have helped shape that landscape. The research and field trials carried out in Lancaster City can be taken forward by the Museum sector to support, for example, the deployment of 'outdoor' museums and to develop solutions that support experiences involving a human tour guides using supplementary content delivered as locative media through a mobile device. Finally, the project's collaboration with the rural village of Wray have demonstrated the value and potential of providing residents with an open locative media platform that enables the shared curation of personal histories. One example of how this work is being taken forward is through the recently funded AHRC project (AH/R003211/1) entitled 'Urban Heritage and the Digital Humanities in India' which is using the understandings obtained through SHARC (and its developed software framework) in order to engage the local communities with the tangible and intangible heritage of Dehli. |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Environment,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | http://thesharcproject.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | To date, both the technology and the user centered approach employed have featured in a report submitted to the government commission engaged in investigating 'Digital Democracy' and how current ICT projects can provide key insights into how the challenges surrounding Digital Democracy, e.g. sustaining citizen engagement, may be met. The developed SHARC framework has been used effectively to communicate with stakeholders and prototype locative media experiences in the rural village of Wray, the city of Lancaster and the English Lake District. The research with the City of Lancaster involved collaboration with Lancaster Military Heritage Group and Lancaster's Kings Own Royal Regiment museum. The SHARC framework has been used to prototype both self-guided experiences in the town and experiences designed to compliment a human tour guide. The research that has taken place in the English Lake District has involved extensive collaboration with the Lake District National Trust. Field trials involving apps developed using the SHARC framework have been carried out with members of he general public and the positive results have led to continued interest from the Lake District National Trust and strong visitor engagement (with the Cultural Landscape of the Lakes) supported by the app and co-designed locative media experiences which were developed in close collaboration with the Nation Trust's World Heritage Site Programme Manager. A potential collaboration with the Brockhole visitor centre and the Penrith and Eden Museum is currently being investigated. These collaborations would again be with a view to supporting visitor understanding of the Cultural Heritage related to Cumbria. The developed software is also being used in a funded (40K) AHRC project entitled: Urban Heritage and the Digital Humanities in India. This project has the overall aim of supporting the documentation, promotion and conservation of heritage in dynamic urban environments and is using the SHARC framework to develop a prototype smart phone app - SHARC Dilli - that will create interactive maps of heritage in Dehli. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2019 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic |
| Description | Our work on public displays and citizen engagement with Wray village is featured in a report (coordinated by Swansea university) currently (Nov 2014) in the contributions section of the written-evidence for the Speaker's commission on digital democracy |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://www.parliament.uk/business/commons/the-speaker/speakers-commission-on-digital-democracy/publi... |
| Description | Heritage Lottery Funding |
| Amount | £9,100 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | FW-14-03372 |
| Organisation | Heritage Lottery Fund |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2015 |
| End | 06/2016 |
| Description | Impact Fund (Lancaster University, Faculty of Science and Technology) |
| Amount | £4,999 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Lancaster University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2017 |
| End | 07/2017 |
| Description | Collaboration with Kings Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster |
| Organisation | Kings Own Royal Regiment Museum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We worked with the curator/tour guide of Kings Own Royal Regiment Museum in order to explore the potential of Locative Media to support his tour guide practice. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The curator/tour guide of Kings Own Royal Regiment Museum contributed approximately 4 days of time which involved a full day contextual inquiry interview, 3 co-design workshops/meetings to develop a prototype locative media experience and 3 field-trials with the prototype locative media experience. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary and has involved working with Lancaster University's History Department and linked with a Heritage Lottery Funded project called 'Streets of Mourning'. In addition to developing an understanding of the potential of locative media to support the human tour guide experience, a self-guided mobile app has also been developed as an output which is available for public download here: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/greatwar/the-great-war-trail-app/. Other outputs associated with the collaboration include public engagement activities in Lancaster, e.g. Campus in the City, and public field trials. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Collaboration with Lake District National Trust |
| Organisation | National Trust |
| Department | Lake District |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We contributed initial new understanding to the Lake District National Trust regarding the potential of Locative Media experiences to support visitor engagement with key Points of Interest supported and maintained by the Lake District National Trust. This new understanding resulted from the co-design of a Locative Media experiences supporting visitor engagement with the Bowderstone situated in the Lake District's Borrowdale valley. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Lake District National Trust provided in-kind contributions to support the co-design of the Locative Media experiences aand also supported the field trial-evaluation by allowing the field-trial to have National Trust branding. |
| Impact | The on-going collaboration is currently working to develop an experience for the Langdale valley and working closely with Alex McCoskrie who is the National Trust's World Heritage Site Programme Manager. The University has recently awarded the PI (Dr Cheverst) faculty funding to further support the potential impact of this collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Collaboration with Lancaster University's History Department on the project: Urban Heritage and the Digital Humanities in India |
| Organisation | Lancaster University |
| Department | Department of History |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The project is utilising the SHARC framework and the approaches followed in the SHARC project in order to deploy a tailored version of the SHARC Locative Media app in order to capture and share local history accounts of New Dehli |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project's PI (Dr Deb Sutton) has provided feedback on the suitability of the SHARC framework for supporting the technical requirements of the 'Urban Heritage and the Digital Humanities in India' project. This has included, for example, confirmation of the need for the framework to support off-line operation. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary in nature with the key disciplines being: Computer Science and History |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Collaboration with upcoming research project within the RSA Food, Farming and Countryside Commission (FFCC) |
| Organisation | Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The SHARC framework is being made available to support the project's requirement to develop and deploy a mobile app that can be used to collect various multimedia inputs from users and cache locally before uploading when a good internet connection is available. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners at the RSA are providing valuable feedback regarding the suitability and effectiveness of the SHARC framework in supporting the requirements of the project relating to the mobile app being deployed. |
| Impact | Currently, the collaboration is at too early a stage for the reporting of key outputs or outcomes. However, the aims of the project suggest that strong societal outcomes will be produced. The project outcomes will also be used to inform public policy. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Title | Self contained 'great-war-trail' Android app with a public release |
| Description | Self contained Android app that enables a user to play a locative media experience co-designed with the curator/tour guide of Lancaster's Kings own royal regiment museum. The app provides a self-guided walking tour (named On the Warpath) of Lancaster. The walking tour presents multimedia relating to Lancaster in the First World War, linked to key locations along the route. Media includes photographs, textual descriptions, audio clips and archive video footage. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | The app has had a significant number of downloads enabling users (both residents of Lancaster and visitors) to consume the locative media experience to appreciate and understand the impact that the Great War had on Lancaster city. |
| URL | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/greatwar/the-great-war-trail-app/ |
| Title | The SHARC Locative Media framework |
| Description | The SHARC Locative Media framework provides web-based and mobile authoring tools allowing non-technical designers to create locative media experiences. The framework also includes mobile (Android) tools supporting the consumption of locative media experiences. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | The SHARC Locative Media framework is underpinning the locative media experiences associated with the "Streets of Mourning and Community Memory in Lancaster" (see follow on funding) |
| URL | https://thesharcproject.wordpress.com/sharc-2-0-framework/ |
| Description | "campus in the city" public engagement event in Lancaster City Center |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In May 2016 the project engaged with members of the public as part of a "campus in the city" public engagement event in Lancaster City Center (on 14 May 2016). The event included the demonstration to members of the public of a Locative Media Experience relating to the impact of WW1 on Lancaster and developed using the SHARC framework. The aim of the Locative Media Experience was to communicate the impact that WW1 had on Lancaster and its residents and the general feedback from those that trialled the app was that they had not realised the extent of the impact on Lancaster. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | 'Campus in the City' event on Saturday 14 May 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The SHARC work involving the impact of the First World War on Lancaster and surrounding area is featuring in a 'Campus in the City' which will take place in Lancaster on 14th May 2016. The aim of 'Campus in the City' is to demonstrate what goes on at the University to the local community, involve the local community in those activities and create a pathway to impact for researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | CHI workshop on: Unobtrusive User Experiences with Technology in Nature |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I co-organised this CHI workshop to help foster a community exploring how technologies (including locative media based technologies) can support unobtrusive interaction with the features and landscape of natural and rural environments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.naturechi.net/2016/ |
| Description | Demonstration at the Speakers Commission on Digital Democracy event in Cardiff, July 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The demo and poster presentation received significant interest at the event and Dr Keith Cheverst and Dr Trien Do were able to answer numerous questions regarding details of the system the user engagment approaches followed. One outcome of attending this event is that both the technology and the user centered approach employed have featured in a report which has recently been submitted to the government commission engaged in investigating 'Digital Democracy' and how current ICT projects can provide key insights into how the challenges surrounding Digital Democracy, e.g. sustaining citizen engagement, may be met. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2014 |
| URL | http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-democracy-alive-to-engagement-registration-11775062529 |
| Description | Invited talk at City University in June 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I delivered an invited talk to HCI research group (postgrads, lecturers, etc.) at City University (organised by Dr George Buchanan) - the title of my talk was: "Exploring the role of Locative Media relating to local history in a rural village community" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Invited talk at St Andrews |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I delivered an invited talk to St Andrew's HCI group (also attended by researchers outside of St Andrew's) entitled: "Exploring the role of Locative Media relating to local history in a rural village community". The talk prompted discussion on the potential of locative media in supporting sense of community and civic engagement and possible opportunities for collaboration between Lancaster and St Andrew's in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://sachi.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/2016/01/seminar-placeholder-keith-cheverst/ |
| Description | Invited talk at the Cultural, Communication & Computing Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a talk about SHARC activities and associated insights entitled: "Exploring the role of Locative Media relating to local history in a rural village community" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.shu.ac.uk/research/c3ri/events/c3ri-lunchtime-research-seminar-exploring-role-locative-m... |
| Description | Invited talk entitled "Supporting a Rural Community's Interaction with its Cultural Heritage: Design and Use of a Situated Display based solution" presented at Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Germany, 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk entitled "Supporting a Rural Community's Interaction with its Cultural Heritage: Design and Use of a Situated Display based solution" presented at Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Germany, 2013 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Keynote at CHIItaly 2015 entitled: Experiences of Supporting Community Interaction Through Situated Display Deployments |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote at CHIItaly 2015 (Rome) entitled: Experiences of Supporting Community Interaction Through Situated Display Deployments |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.sapienzaapps.it/chitaly2015/ |
| Description | Knowledge Exchange Event held at Lancaster on developing impact with digital resources and attended by a number of cultural heritage organisations based in the north west |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An Knowledge Exchange event was organised by Lancaster's Digital Humanities group on developing impact with digital resources. The event was attended by a number of cultural heritage organisations based in the north west including National Trust, Wordsworth trust, etc. I presented a talk entitled: "Encouraging Visitor Engagement and Reflection with the Landscape of the English Lake District: Exploring the potential of Locative Media". A number of the curators present commented that they were not aware of the potential of Locative Media in supporting visitor engagement and following on from this event a number of further collaborations have arisen with Wordsworth Trust and National Trust. Furthermore, we have received letters of support for EPSRC research funding from the aforementioned as well as Oldham Council - Arts and Heritage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MobileHCI Workshop entitled: 2nd Workshop on Unobtrusive User Experiences with Technology in Nature |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I co-organised this MobileHCI workshop as a follow-on to the first CHI workshop on this theme in order to help further foster a community exploring how technologies (including locative media based technologies) can support unobtrusive interaction with the features and landscape of natural and rural settings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.naturechi.net/ |
| Description | Paper presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keith Cheverst presented the SHARC paper entitled: *Experiences with the Co-design and Evaluation of Locative Media Experiences with the National Trust* at the CHI workshop: NatureCHI: Unobtrusive User Experiences with Technology in Nature which took place in Vienna. September 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.naturechi.net/ |
| Description | Paper presentation (entitled LoMAK: A framework for generating Locative Media Apps from KML file) at the ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems, Rome 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper presentation (entitled LoMAK: A framework for generating Locative Media Apps from KML file) at the ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems, Rome 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://eics-conference.hosting.acm.org/2014/index.php?content=2 |
| Description | Paper presentation (entitled: The 'hacking of third places' within a Rural Village Community) at international workshop on Human Computer Interaction on Third Places, Vancouver, 2014. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper presentation (entitled: The 'hacking of third places' within a Rural Village Community) with follow-on discussion at international workshop on Human Computer Interaction on Third Places, Vancouver, 2014. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://hci3p.com/dis/accepted-submissions/ |
| Description | Paper presentation at ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper presentation entitled: "The SHARC Framework: Utilizing Personal Dropbox Accounts to Provide a Scalable Solution to the Storage and Sharing of Community Generated Locative Media" at ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, Germany, June 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://eics2015.org/program.html |
| Description | Paper presentation at HiCUE Workshop on Human Interfaces for Civic and Urban Engagement, Zurich, 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper presentation (entitled Supporting a Rural Community's Interaction with its Cultural Heritage: Design and Use of a Situated Display based solution) with follow-on discussion at the HiCUE Workshop on Human Interfaces for Civic and Urban Engagement, held in conjunction with UbiComp 2013. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://hicue2013.blogspot.co.uk/p/schedule.html |
| Description | Paper presentation at the C&T CULTECH2015 workshop on Cultural diversity and technology design, 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper presentation (entitled: Supporting the design and consumption of Locative Media Experiences related to the Cultural Heritage of a Rural Village Community) and associated follow-on discussion at the CULTECH2015 workshop on Cultural diversity and technology design, Limerick, Ireland. 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://cultech2015.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Presentation at British HCI Lincoln in July 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of full research paper "Content Analysis of a Rural Community¹s Interaction with its Cultural Heritage" at the British HCI conference held in Lincoln in July 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://british-hci2015.org/program/ |
| Description | Presented SHARC paper entitled 'Encouraging Visitor Engagement and Reflection with the Landscape of the English Lake District: Exploring the potential of Locative Media' a the CHI workshop: NatureCHI: Unobtrusive User Experiences with Technology in Nature. San Jose May 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The activity involved presenting SHARC paper entitled: Encouraging Visitor Engagement and Reflection with the Landscape of the English Lake District: Exploring the potential of Locative Media at the workshop "NatureCHI: Unobtrusive User Experiences with Technology in Nature" held in San Jose, May 2016. The primary purpose of the talk was as a dissemination activity and this and the other talks has resulted in plans for future activity including a second workshop in the series and research collaboration with the University of Lapland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.naturechi.net/2016/index.html |
| Description | Public field trial during Wray May Day Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A design workshop and open field trial of the SHARC tools/framework was carried out during Wray May Day Festival in May 2015. The design workshop involved residents and impact included requests for further participation. The field trial involved residents and visitors and gain impact included requests for further participation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://thesharcproject.wordpress.com/news/ |
| Description | Regional TV report on public event at Lancaster City library to trial a Locative Media Experience relating to impact of ww1 on Lancaster and related web site |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Regional TV report (North West tonight) on public event held at Lancaster City library to engage members of the public with the impact of ww1 on Lancaster. The even featured a developed Locative Media Experience (using the SHARC framework) and related web site. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |