Digitalt fortalt: Now what?
Jacqueline Floch, SINTEF ICT
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Social Inclusion Technologies @SINTEF ICT (1)
„ Empower citizens and increase their participation in the
society
„ Eliminate the digital divide
„ Empower citizens in the digital world
„ Evaluate existing ICT technology
Develop new prototype solutions
„ User centric design techniques
„ Lean research
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Social Inclusion Technologies @SINTEF ICT (2)
„ Application domains
„ Welfare
„ Health
„ Energy consumption: awareness and control
„ Culture heritage: learning and personal development
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Social Inclusion Technologies @SINTEF ICT (3)
„ Technology areas
„ Mobile & pervasive computing
„ Social computing & community building
„ Persuasive computing
„ Serious games
„ Smart solutions based on Big Data
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TAG CLOUD (1)
„ EU FP7-ICT project
„ Increase the active participation of the general public in
cultural experiences
„ Personalisation
„ Contribution to content
„ Sharing experiences
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TAG CLOUD (2)
Digitalt
fortalt
Application (s)
Information
about sites
Stories,
itineraries
Virtual
environments
Games,
quizzes
Back-end
Personalise
Metadata
harvesting
Europeana
Alhambra y
Generalife
Social
networks
+++
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SINTEF role in TAG CLOUD
„ Design and develop new applications
„ Engagement through storytelling
„ Engagement through social media
„ Status: development of “stedr”
in cooperation with NTNU
„ Conduct pilot trial in Norway
„ Theme: “Culture in the landscape”
„ Target users: Local citizen,
secondary school students
„ Status:
„ “stedr”: usability testing done, first test users recruited
„ “cooltura”: creation of contents e.g. quizzes
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stedr : Lær om din kulturarv
„ En mobil og sosial App for å oppdage
kulturelle fortellinger om steder.
„ Alle kan skape og dele nye steder og
fortellinger.
„ stedr bruker Flickr, Digitalt fortalt, Twitter,
Instagram and Soundcloud.
„ Har du lyst å bli en testbruker?
Ta kontakt med Jacqueline.Floch@sintef.no
Les mer:
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Digitalt fortalt: user roles
Explorer
Storyteller
Developer
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Digitalt fortalt
„ Digitalt fortalt er et fantastisk verktøy som har potensial til
å engasjere et bredere publikum i kultur.
„ Humans are addicted to storytelling.
[Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal:
How Stories Make Us Human]
„ Anybody can contribute.
„ Diversity
„ Engaging through participation
„ Skills development
„ Open data approach.
„ Availability
„ Enabler for building innovative digital services
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Now what: How to engage?
„ More explorers
„ Visibility in
„ mass media
„ social media
„ Dissemination through museums
„ Availability of contents through mobile applications
„ More storytellers
„ Involve
„ cultural associations
„ elderly
„ schools
„ Enhance support for feedback
„ Increase confidence through training
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Now what: How to ensure quality?
„ Functional improvements
„ Support for reporting errors, annoying content and spam
„ Support dialogue between explorers and storytellers
„ notification and moderation for comments
„ messaging
„ Community support
„ share experiences
„ organize review processes
„ new requirements to Digitalt fortalt
„ Content
„ Training support
„ e.g. guidelines to storytellers or workshops
„ Improve taxonomy
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Now what: How to stimulate innovation?
„ Designer/developer forum
„ Facilitate development
„ share code examples
„ solve open issues
„ New requirements to API
„ Discuss new ideas
„ Remove some API restrictions
„ Support for adding content, e.g. comments
„ Avoid linguistic barrier
„ Content production vs. dissemination
„ Automate export
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Now what:Thinking bigger?
„ What about exploiting Digitalt fortalt beyond the
Norwegian borders where many institutions lack and miss
such a tool?
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Thank you!
Maleri: Oscar Sivertzen
„ Follow us at http://sit.sintef9013.com
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