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PATINA: Personal Architectonics Through Interactions with Artifacts

The PATINA project aims to revolutionise the design of technologies for supporting research. It was awarded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) through the RCUK Digital Economy programme and will run for three years from October 2010.

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 recording of research practice the project will also enable you to ‘walk in the footsteps’ of other researchers, and explore how the provenance of your developing ideas links with theirs 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.

The project is led by the University of Bristol in collaboration with the Universities of Brighton, Greenwich, Newcastle, Southampton and Swansea. It involves partnerships with Microsoft Research, Nokia Research and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Homepage: http://www.patina.ac.uk/
Type: Normal Research Project
Research Groups: Web and Internet Science, Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
Themes: Human Computer Interaction, Trust and Provenance
Dates: 1st January 2010 to 1st January 2015

Keywords

• archeology
• architecture
• interactions
• provenance
• semantic web

Partners

• Archeology, Southampton
• University of Bristol
• University of Newcastle
• University of Brighton
• University of Greenwich
• University of Swansea

Funding

• EPSRC
• AHRC

Principal Investigators

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• Dr Mike Fraser, Bristol
• Dr Graeme Earl, Archeology, Southampton
• Prof Matt Jones, Swansea
• Dr Rosamund Davies, Greenwich
• Dr Martyn Dade-Robertson

You can edit the record for this project by visiting http://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/db/projects/editproj.php?project=770