[Patina] questions about the field trial

[Enrico Costanza]

Hi Graeme, Angeliki and Tom,

Sorry to email you at this hour -- it's been a hectic day. I am trying
to figure out few more details of intervention 3 and its deployment in
view of the Monday meeting.

As we discussed on Thursday, the current idea is to have a /field trial/
(here I mean in the Archaeology lab, which in HCI terms is still
"field") where we have users gathering annotations using our system, and
a more controlled /lab study/ where we focus on the browsing or more
general the "use" of this data. In the lab study, it would be great to
have an exercise-like task, where we know that there is a "correct
answer" -- this could be because we only show part of the data collected
in the field trial, so that the other part would be the answer..

So we have 3 related questions:
1. who are the users for the field trial and for how long could they
engage with the system?
2. what kind of annotations could do they gather?
3. who could we get to look at this data later on? (this could be the
same people as in 1)

Are there students (UG? MA? PhD?) in Archaeology during the summer who
we could involve?
Are there classes? Are there projects? (e.g. master projects) If there
are master projects, how are they typically organized? Individual?
Group? How are topics assigned? How are students supervised?

Regarding #2, should we get participants to annotate an existing and
organized collection? That would give us more systematic data. Or shall
we ask them to annotate the finds that they normally work on? That would
be more realistic.
The more realistic option may be preferable, but how many objects would
these students normally work on?
If we do go for the more realistic option, we may need to pre-populate
the system with some data, to make it more useful. Is there existing
data in digital format that we could use? For example, are there
available data sets in the CIDOC CRM format that Graeme mentioned in the
past? ( http://hypermedia.research.glam.ac.uk/kos/CRM/ )

Thanks,
Enrico

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Dr Enrico Costanza
Lecturer, Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, UK, SO17 1BJ

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