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SUMMARY
Current digital research support systems take attention away from the material that they describe. PATINA will provide researchers with new opportunities to create research spaces that emphasise the primacy of research material, and support the sharing of research activities as well as results. Through the recording of research practice the project will also enable end-users to ‘walk in the footsteps’ of other researchers, and explore potential research synergies through shared objects that exist both online and in the real world.
The consortium will build wearable prototypes that can enhance research objects by projecting related information back into their research space. These technologies will also provide the means to capture, record, and replay the researcher’s activities to support intuitive archiving, sharing and publication of interactions with research objects. The design of the technologies will draw on theoretical frameworks of space developed from studies of research spaces as diverse as libraries, museums, homes and archaeological fieldwork sites.
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SOLUTIONS
- Designing data visualisation techniques inspired by material research practice
- Merging digital and physical research spaces through interaction with research objects
- Investigating the personal architectonics of interactions with artefacts
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LINK: http://www.patina.ac.uk/
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