St Fagans Natural History Museum - Forwarded Proposal
My name is Nigel Whitbread and I am a final year student at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff (UWIC) School of Art and Design. I am studying towards a BA/BSc (HONS) Top-up in Design for Interactive Media.
A major part of my degree involves producing a year long research project. My general field of enquiry is Location Aware Services and Locative Media. This research project will be looking at what devices (PDA’s, mobile phones, Nodes) would provide the best platform for location aware context driven content.
I am interested in creating an electronic guidebook for St Fagans to be viewed on a mobile device. The device is to be used out of doors on the site of the Natural History Museum, and provide historical location context driven data about the site and its buildings. I would like to provide a walking tour incorporating audio, photos, text, and video to provide the historical facts and information.
The concept is similar to the multimedia tours provided inside the Tate Modern but instead of using wireless technology I want to use GPS (Global Positioning Systems) technology to deliver the content to site specific locations, so that when you are approaching the St Fagans Castle for example, you’ll be receiving data about the castles’ history, when it was built, who lived there etc.
The methodology I propose to use will include, semi structured interviews (of the general public, staff, visitors, and school children of a variety of ages) to be undertaken at St Fagans to gain an understanding of the interest people show in using handheld devices to look at historical data with contextual relevancy. I will use analysis of acquired data-filmed, photographic, audio, interviews, and questionnaires to create a prototype on a relevant device based on users expectations.
I would like to be able to directly link my project and my ties to UWIC with your institution and maybe gain access to your library and archives for material to be used as content for the electronic guide.
I thank you for your time in considering my proposal and hope we can work together in the future.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
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