Participate explores convergence in pervasive, online and broadcast media to create new kinds of mass-participatory events in which a broad cross-section of the public contributes to, as well as accesses, contextual content - on the move, in public places, at school and at home.
People
Alan Chamberlain, Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, Mark Paxton, Kevin Glover, Martin Flintham, Dominic Price.
Main contact
Partners
British Telecom, BBC, Microsoft, University of Bath, SciencScope.
Funding
Technology Strategy Board and EPSRC
PROJECT OVERVIEW
The consortium is working together to develop scalable solutions for managed events and campaigns which engage and motivate participants over sustained periods of time. We are developing tools for the public to author, share and discuss content using their own devices, and for professionals and experts to collate and edit contributions for publication over broadcast and interactive channels.
We are working with a range of partners to develop pervasive experiences based on the theme of “the environment”.
In a series of trials and events, coordinated by experts in education, broadcast and online services, the general public and a network of schools will be invited to capture and contribute information about their local environment. This can then be used to augment professionally created media, building a national picture of environmental situations across the UK.
Publications
Milena Radenkovic, Tom Lodge, “Engaging the Public through Mass-Scale Multimedia Networks”, IEEE Multimedia, 2006, pp. 12-15.
Tom Lodge, Milena Radenkovic, “Towards mass scale environmental monitoring by the public”, to appear EuroIMSA, 2007, France.
Chamberlain, A. Benford, S. Tandavanitj, N and Oldroyd, A., "Professor Tanda: Persuasive Pervasive Play" IEEE Distributed Systems, 2007., ISSN : 1541-4922 . IEEE Computer Society.
Paxton, M. Chamberlain, A. and Benford, S.,"Sensor-Based Sytems for Environmental Education" Accepted for Publication in The Workshop on 'Emerging Technologies for Inquiry Based Learning in Science', AIED 2007 Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2007., ISBN : .
Chamberlain, A., Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Et al. "Professor Tanda: Greener Gaming & Pervasive Play" DUX 07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing for User eXperiences ., ISSN 978-1-60558-308-2, ACM.
Wright, M.,Chamberlain, A., Greenhalgh, C., Benford, S., Et al. "Guess A Who, Why, Where, When?': The Visualization of Context Data to Aid the Authoring and Orchestration of a Mobile Pervasive Game" CAMS 07 - Context-Aware Mobile Systems, ISBN 978-3-540-76887-6, LNCS Springer Verlag.
Chris Greenhalgh and Steve Benford and Adam Drozd and Martin Flintham and Alastair Hampshire and Leif Oppermann and Keir Smith and Christoph von Tycowicz, Addressing Mobile Phone Diversity in Ubicomp Experience Development, Proc. UbiComp 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4717, pp. 447-464, Springer, 2007.
Kanjo, E., Benford, S., Paxton, M., Chamberlain, A., Et al. (2008)."MobGeoSen: Facilitating Personal GeoSensor Data Collection and Visualization using Mobile Phones", Personal Ubiquitous Computing Journal, ISSN 1617-4909 (Print) 1617-4917 (Online). Springer Verlag.
Paxton, M., ‘Participate: Producing A Mass Scale Environmental Campaign for Pervasive Technology.’ Pervasive 2008 – Workshop on Pervasive Persuasive Technology and Environmental Sustainability.
Benford, S., Giannachi, G., Temporal trajectories in shared interactive narratives, Proc CHI 2008, pp. 73-82, Pisa, Italy, April 2008, ACM
Woodgate, D., Stanton Fraser, D., Paxton, M., Crellin, D., Woolard, A. and Dillon, T.
(2008). ‘Bringing School Science to Life: Personalization, Contextualization and Reflection of Self-Collected Data.’ WMUTE '08: Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technology in Education (wmute 2008) - Volume 00.
Benford, S., Giannachi, G., Koleva. B., Rodden. T., From Interaction toTrajectories: Designing Coherent Journeys Through User Experiences, Accpeted to appear at CHI 2009, Boston, USA, April 2009, ACM.
Woodgate, D., Stanton Fraser, D., Gower, A. Glancy, M., Gower, A., Chamberlain, A., Dillon, T. and Crellin, D. (forthcoming) 'Using Mobile and Pervasive Technologies to Engage Formal and Informal Learners in Scientific Debate' in T.Goh (Ed) Multiplatform E-Learning Systems and Technologies: Mobile Devices for Ubiquitous ICT-Based Education. To be published by IGI Global - accepted 2008, to appear 2009.
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