ARtSENSE at SIMESITEM 2012
The ARtSENSE consortium will be undertaking its first public ARtSENSE dedicated conference/workshop within the framework of SIMESITEM 2012 on Wednesday 25th of January, from 12.00 to 13.30 pm.
Find more information about the SIMESITEM 2012 event here.
Presentation of ARtSENSE at DISH conference
Areti Damala is going to present “ARtSENSE: Participatory Design and ICT Innovation in Cultural Heritage” this Wednesday in Rotterdam. For more information look here.
ARtSENSE Visual Aesthetic Interest Survey
Take part in the interest survey from LJMU!
More information here: http://www.physiologicalcomputing.net/?p=1886
Technical Meeting in Frankfurt
The technical partners of the ARtSENSE-consortium met in Frankfurt on 4th of October. First, all partners presented the current state of development, followed by many discussions about e.g. user modelling, use case studies and conceptual architecture. See some impressions of this very fruitful meeting (more to follow):
Presentation of ARtSENSE at Rewire 2011, Liverpool
LJMU and FACT hosted an event on the 29th September at the Rewire Conference – the Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology (28th – 30th September 2011, Art and Design Academy, Liverpool). This took the form of a day long “drop-in” room with content about the ARtSENSE project available for viewing and discussion. The event was and staffed by: Stephen Fairclough (LJMU), Kiel Gilleade (LJMU), Ute Kreplin (LJMU), Roger McKinley (FACT) and Clara Casian (FACT).
Roger McKinley introduced the ARtSENSE project to the audience and Stephen Fairclough and Kiel Gilleade presented a demonstration of a selection of their bio-sensing tools. During the demo they monitored Kiel’s physiological state while he watched a short selection of film clips from both FACT sourced material (film submissions for the Abandon Normal Devices Festival) and mainstream films (James Bond). There followed a short discussion on the project who fed back on the demonstration and the project.
Throughout the day Ute Kreplin set up and demonstrated her online “aesthetic” feedback tool and gathered some public response to a series of images that had been constructed to stimulate a range of reactions. These responses were captured on a feedback form.
Discussion took place with delegates before and after the presentations, particularly around using the technology as a learning tool for young people to help them engage with culture and historical information in new and exciting way. There was also significant interest in the 2nd FACT User Case scenario – the commissioning process for an artwork that helps disseminate the project and test it in the public realm.
The event was the first from FACT/LJMU to demonstrate the project to the Arts Professional public and, even though the project is in an early phase, the feedback from the Arts Professional public indicated a keen interest in the project.
First ARtSENSE-Newsletter
After six month of the project, the first ARtSENSE-newsletter was published.
Read it online here: ARtSENSE-Newsletter
News on AR-glasses
A prototype of the AR-glasses used for ARtSENSE is currently presented on the SID 2011 in L.A..
In contrast to using the “Terminator Vision” for “joggers” as stated on engadget, ARtSENSE will combine these glasses with audio- and biosensors in order to offer museum visitors a new A²R-experience…
Adventures of a logo
As with the project acronym, the ARtSENSE logo text can be roughly divided in two parts: “ARt” and “SENSE”. The “ARt” part of the logo is a direct allusion to two fundamental concepts: The Augmented Reality (AR) concept, which forms the basis and the backbone of the project and the “art” concept. The “art” concept needs to be considered in way encompassing more broadly art and cultural heritage in its variety of expressions (art, tangible cultural heritage, intangible cultural heritage, scientific and technical cultural heritage and so on). The “SENSE” part of both the project acronym and logo is what differentiates the ARtSENSE approach from all other existing AR approaches. More in particular the “SENSE” part is a direct allusion to the concept of adaptive AR, another pioneering concept introduced by the ARtSENSE consortium that has as an aspiration to link in a meaningful way the best in metadata management and ontologies, physiological computing and acoustic processing all by taking under consideration the unique domain space in which ARtSENSE will be deployed: the sensitive museum ecology and the museum visiting experience.
New images from CeBIT: wearing iSTAR-glasses
Light-weight iSTAR-glasses (prototype)
After a long CeBIT day, it is hard to smile...
ARtSENSE now on Twitter
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