photo technologies & interspaces seminar PROGRAM
¾ day event in Lancaster (UK), 25th April 2008
All events will be held in Room C60b/c in the InfoLab21 building (directions), Lancaster University (directions) unless otherwise stated. Room C60b/c is situated on the first floor of InfoLab21: at the top of the stairs after the main entrance. Visitor parking is available directly outside the InfoLab21 Building in bollarded spaces. Scratch cards are available from InfoLab21 reception - these can be collected there from Christine on Friday morning.
We will have some accounts available for wireless access and printouts of the program and abstracts.
Presentations (other than main talks) should be 15 minutes long (maximum) and allow at least 5 minutes for questions and discussion. A Mac laptop will be provided and a projector and speakers will be available. Presenters can also use their own laptops to present but are encouraged to test their presentation before their session.
Paul Coulton has kindly created a locomash for the day at: http://www.locomash.com/view-event.php?eid=1984. An overview of locomash is presented in this YouTube video clip. Paul will have some phones available to try out locomash with.
If there is enough interest, we will go for dinner together afterwards.
PDF version of the program
1015 |
MEET & GREET outside Room C60b/c |
| 1030 |
WELCOME |
| 1040 |
Opening Talk: BUILDING FOR SOCIAL IMPACT - INTERSPACEProfessor Michael Hulme is Professor and Associate Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Lancaster University and he is Director of the CSMTC Research Group, a small group of social insight centres, closely affiliated to Lancaster University specialising in exploring emergent social futures and the role of media and technology. Following an early career in commerce and strategy he built and sold several businesses. He continues to advise and sit on the Board of several quoted and unquoted companies. Whilst, during the last 10 years he has devoted most of his time to social research he has also been able to play an active role in the economic and social regeneration of the North West with a particular commitment to Cumbria. |
| 1120 |
PRESENTATIONS ONE: 4 papersDigital cameras and the reproduction of photography and family. Matt Watson (Department of Geography, University of Sheffield), Elizabeth Shove (Department of Sociology, Lancaster University) [slides] On Human Remains: Excavating the Home Archive. David Kirk (Microsoft Research,Cambridge) [slides] When Heat Meets Warhol! Haliyana Khalid (Computing Department, Lancaster University), Alan Dix (Computing Department, Lancaster University) [slides] In between the face to face: sharing images as a means of maintaining momentum in multi country research. Vincent O'Brien (School of Rehabilitation and Public Health, University of Cumbria), Kenesh Djusipov (Kyrgyz State Medical Academy, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) and Flavio Wittlin (Viramundo, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil) [video (3.8MB)] |
| 1300 |
Outside Room C60b/cLUNCH |
| 1340 |
Key Talk: HOME MADE VIDEOSDr Eric Laurier is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Geography at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently the principal investigator on two large EPSRC projects 'Habitable cars: the organisation of collective private transport' and 'Assembling the line: amateur & professional work, skills and practice in digital video editing', working with Barry Brown, Ignaz Strebel & Hayden Lorimer.In this talk Eric will present some preliminary thoughts on how movies are assembled in domestic settings. Drawing on ethnographic work from an ESRC funded project 'Assembling the line: amateur & professional work, skills and practice in digital video editing', he will consider what is distinctive about what Richard Chalfen long ago called 'the home mode'. The topics of the videos being made are not the family as they have been in most theorisation of home movies but rather, in one case, animals, and in the other, extreme sports. As such the question that is raised is about what it is to make things at home rather than to 'represent' the family through home video. |
| 1420 |
PRESENTATIONS TWO: 3 papersSupporting Community Awareness with Public Photo Displays Nick Taylor (Computing Department, Lancaster University), Keith Cheverst (Computing Department, Lancaster University) [slides] Sharing Photographs: The Writers' Way Christian Kray (School of Computing Science, Newcastle University) [slides] Technology and the Family Life Cycle: Play, Pressure and Purpose Dave Randall (Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University) [slides] |
| 1530 |
Outside Room C60b/cCOFFEE |
| 1545 |
Closing Talk: REVEALING THE JOURNEY TO SCHOOL USING MOBILE GEO-SPATIAL PHOTO BLOGGINGDr Paul Coulton (Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication Systems, Lancaster University and a member of Mobile Radicals at the InfoLab21. He is also a Nokia Champion. His principal interest in mobile applications is to push the boundaries of innovation to create uniquely mobile experiences.This talk will discuss a research project in which mobile phones were used as part of a multi-methods approach to analyze the effects of air pollution on children's journeys to and from school. In particular, the results from the space-time blogs generated on mobile phones by 30 Year 8 pupils (aged 12-13) on their school journeys during four periods of study across the seasons of a year. |
| 1630 |
CLOSING |
| 1900 |
INFORMAL DINNERIf there are enough people interested we will go for dinner afterwards. |
Participants
Presenters will be from Professor Alan Dix, Haliyana Khalid, Dr Dave Kirk, Dr Chris Kray, Vincent O'Brien, Dr Dave Randall, Professor Elizabeth Shove, and Nick Taylor and Matt Watson
Participants will include Dr Monika Buscher, Dr Tim Dant, Abigail Durrant and Dr Sian Lindley.
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