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Hi Graeme, Angeliki and Tom, <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
As we discussed on Thursday, the current idea is to have a <i>field
trial</i> (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 <i>lab study</i> 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..<br>
<br>
So we have 3 related questions:<br>
1. who are the users for the field trial and for how long could they
engage with the system? <br>
2. what kind of annotations could do they gather?<br>
3. who could we get to look at this data later on? (this could be
the same people as in 1)<br>
<br>
Are there students (UG? MA? PhD?) in Archaeology during the summer
who we could involve? <br>
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?<br>
<br>
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.<br>
The more realistic option may be preferable, but how many objects
would these students normally work on?<br>
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? (
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hypermedia.research.glam.ac.uk/kos/CRM/">http://hypermedia.research.glam.ac.uk/kos/CRM/</a> )<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Enrico<br>
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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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