Objective
We will provide members of a given community who live and work in a particular locality with a means to capture, share and explore their collective memory with the aim to preserve and interpret the richness and complexity of local culture.
This project will therefore address the mechanisms needed for people or groups to create and 'update' their collective memory, and to make the collective memory a living, present-day phenomenon within the community.
Objectives
- To identify the needs of the local community in relation to preservation and communication of local history, local news, private and shared memories
- To design interfaces supporting local content creation, communication and preservation
- To develop tools for intelligent memory management
- To demonstrate the relevance of a mediated living memory
- To demonstrate a new approach to research, development and design.
In doing the above we will advance the state of the art in the constituent fields, namely interaction design, software agents, and multimedia technology.
The results of the project therefore can be easily transferred to academic research and industrial research and development programmes. At the major milestones reports will be prepared, targeted at specific groups, that translate project results within the participants' organisations.
The basic building blocks addressed in Living Memory are the three aspects of I3: Intelligent Information Interfaces. Each of these is addressed when applied to the creation of memory within the Connected Community schema.
From Community to Connected Community This project addresses both the aspects of 'connected' and 'community' in 'Connected Community', and uses the assumptions that:
- 'community' needs memory to exist
- 'connected' involves communication and shared information.
While current virtual community research focuses mainly on issues like identity, representation, and security, we believe that, by studying the collective memory of a real community, we are addressing the missing link, which can help develop current networked technologies into the consumer domain.
In emerging global networks, the dominant paradigm is one of connectedness. Our focus on a local, geographical community means that we can leverage on the real-life identity and connections which actually exist in the locality, and which can be enlivened with the application of new technologies.
Approach
The project consortium already has established contact in an Edinburgh community. The project is divided in 4 main activities which will run concurrently:
- A sociological and ethnographic study to identify the needs and desires of the target user group
- Concept development and iterative user testing of concepts
- Fundamental interaction design research and development
- Development and implementation of the prototype system.
Take-up of results
Each partner will actively promote the re-use and further development of the results of Living Memory. Within the consortium many good contacts exist between people working in long-term research, industrial research programs, and business.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- humanities history and archaeology history
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Netherlands
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