Living with Digital Ubiquity

数字化无处不在

• 批准号: EP/M000877/1
• 负责人: Steve Benford
• 金额: $ 156.17万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FM000877%2F1
• 关键词: Living; Digital; Ubiquity

Since its formation in 2000 the MRL has focused on creatively interleaving the physical and the digital for everyday life. We have simultaneously explored new interactive possibilities and developed understandings of how these might be put to use in the real world. Much has changed over last 14 years; some of these changes we have driven, while others we have responded to. When we began our journey, notions of ubiquitous, tangible and mixed reality computing were very much in their infancy, as were potential applications and methods. Our first seven years was therefore concerned with laying the conceptual and methodological foundations for these fields as well as demonstrating potential applications. Much of this was delivered through the Equator Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) that we led until 2007. We then used our previous platform grant to bridge the gap between Equator and the establishment of the Horizon Digital Economy Hub and Centre for Doctoral Training, and also the Orchid programme grant. The subsequent second stage of our journey has focused on driving the widespread adoption of ubiquitous computing as platforms such as smartphones and cloud infrastructures spread into everyday life. Now, as both Horizon Hub funding and Orchid imminently draw to a close in 2015, we need to once again reinvent our research agenda and also ensure our sustainability by bridging any funding gaps as we refresh our grant portfolio.The focus of this next phase will be the overarching challenge living with digital ubiquity? The interleaving of physical and digital that was a distant vision back in 2000, is now becoming a reality for many, with a plethora of devices, from smartphones, to Kinects, to Fitbits allowing us to experience the digital in a bewildering variety of ways. The digital world has become rich, available 24/7, increasingly aware of our physical activities, and populated with our personal data. Ubiquitous technologies that were once considered radical are now becoming an unremarkable feature of our lives. Meanwhile, remarkable new technologies continue to emerge. Technologies for rapidly fabricating physical-digital products or for sensing and actuating the human body raise possibilities for radical new experiences.Our vision of living with digital ubiquity is therefore one of balancing the challenges of living with increasingly mundane ubiquitous technologies, while also enabling people to experience and create extraordinary new experiences. We see this as a productive tension. People must both live in the everyday and yet also seek the profound and creative. It also reflects the essential - and highly creative - tension in the MRL between addressing everyday technology challenges as revealed by ethnographers, while simultaneously engaging with artists and performers to create provocative new experiences. We therefore propose to exploit platform funding to catalyse a step-change in our research by identifying the new research challenges that will arise from living with digital ubiquity, exploring potential approaches to these challenges, developing our key researchers so that they are ready to face them, and forming the partnerships that will help us address them through future research projects. Platform funding will enable us to deliver a programme of exploratory projects, visitor exchanges, and impact projects to explore our vision while also enabling us to retain and develop key staff over the coming critical period.

自 2000 年成立以来，MRL 一直专注于创造性地将日常生活中的物理和数字交织在一起。我们同时探索了新的交互可能性，并加深了对如何将这些可能性应用于现实世界的理解。过去 14 年发生了很多变化；其中一些变化是我们推动的，而另一些变化则是我们做出回应的。当我们开始我们的旅程时，无处不在、有形和混合现实计算的概念还处于起步阶段，潜在的应用和方法也是如此。因此，我们的前七年致力于为这些领域奠定概念和方法基础，并展示潜在的应用。其中大部分是通过我们在 2007 年之前领导的赤道跨学科研究合作组织 (IRC) 实现的。然后，我们利用之前的平台拨款来弥合赤道与地平线数字经济中心和博士培训中心的建立之间的差距，并且兰花计划补助金。随着智能手机和云基础设施等平台渗透到日常生活中，我们旅程的第二阶段重点是推动普适计算的广泛采用。现在，随着 Horizo​​n Hub 资助和 Orchid 资助都在 2015 年即将结束，我们需要再次重新制定我们的研究议程，并通过在刷新我们的资助组合时弥合任何资金缺口来确保我们的可持续性。下一阶段的重点是数字化无处不在是我们面临的首要挑战吗？物理与数字的交错在 2000 年还是一个遥远的愿景，现在对许多人来说正在成为现实，从智能手机到 Kinects，再到 Fitbits 等大量设备使我们能够以各种令人眼花缭乱的方式体验数字化。数字世界变得越来越丰富，24/7 可用，越来越了解我们的身体活动，并填充了我们的个人数据。曾经被认为是激进的无处不在的技术现在正在成为我们生活中一个不起眼的特征。与此同时，卓越的新技术不断涌现。快速制造物理数字产品或传感和驱动人体的技术为全新体验带来了可能性。因此，我们对数字无处不在的生活的愿景之一是平衡生活与日益平凡的无处不在的技术之间的挑战，同时也使人们能够体验并创造非凡的新体验。我们认为这是一种富有成效的张力。人们既要生活在日常生活中，又要追求深刻和创造性。它还反映了 MRL 中解决日常技术挑战（如人种学家揭示的）与同时与艺术家和表演者合作创造挑衅性新体验之间的基本且高度创造性的张力。因此，我们建议利用平台资金来促进我们研究的逐步变革，确定数字无处不在带来的新研究挑战，探索应对这些挑战的潜在方法，培养我们的关键研究人员，使他们做好应对这些挑战的准备，并建立合作伙伴关系，帮助我们通过未来的研究项目解决这些问题。平台资金将使我们能够实施一系列探索性项目、访客交流和影响力项目，以探索我们的愿景，同时也使我们能够在未来的关键时期留住和培养关键员工。

项目成果

An AI-Based Design Framework to Support Musicians' Practices

支持音乐家实践的基于人工智能的设计框架

• DOI: 10.1145/3243274.3275381
• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Avila J

Accountable Artefacts

负责任的文物

• DOI: 10.1145/2858036.2858306
• 发表时间: 2016
• 作者: Benford S

IMorphia

莫菲亚

• DOI: 10.1145/2851581.2891087
• 发表时间: 2016
• 作者: Brown R

Encumbered Interaction

阻碍互动

• DOI: 10.1145/3290605.3300706
• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Avila J

Accountable artefacts: the case of the Carolan guitar

负责任的文物：卡罗兰吉他的案例

• 发表时间: 2016
• 作者: Benford, S.