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The LIME project will provide members of a selected community who live and work
in a particular locality or neighbourhood with a means to capture, share and explore their collective
memory, in order to interpret and preserve the richness and complexity of local culture.
Here are a few highlights from work on the LIME project so far:
Prototyping: The first prototype was realised in
February this year, much earlier than originally planned. The prototype integrates three basic
functions dealing with information handling within the project: the creation of multimedia messages
in postcard format for sharing information between community members; the dissemination of these
messages; and the searching for information based on (amongst other things) social parameters.
Visualisation tools: We are investigating the
potential need for visualisation tools within the community: could such tools stimulate interaction
between people and increase social cohesion by making social interactions and events visible? We
have evaluated an existing application called Netmap,
and on the basis of this we have formulated a number of recommendations and ideas
for consumer-type interfaces.
Schools: We have produced a web-based school
magazine, Foxy Mania, for a community school we
are working with. We will be using this as a tool to extract content created by and for children,
and for further testing of LIME concepts with children, teachers and parents.
Coherence: In order to maintain the overall
system focus we have developed a Connective Tissue
vision, which has been elaborated into an interface framework consisting of a
coherent set of system components. This will enable us to maintain an integrated approach towards
our research and the experimental prototypes we are developing.
We hope this arouses your curiosity; in October you’ll see more!
LIME web page:
www.living-memory.org/
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