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Sounds of the Sea: Making a Mixed Reality Oral History Application for the St Ives Archive

Jeanie Sinclair and Philip Reeder, University College Falmouth, United Kingdom

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Sounds of the Sea: Making a Mixed Reality Oral History Application for the St Ives Archive

Sounds of the Sea: Making a Mixed Reality Oral History Application for the St Ives Archive

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oral history
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pervasive media
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location aware mobile computing
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walking
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St Ives
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iPhone application
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Archives can be esoteric places that are difficult to access. Augmented Reality applications tend to focus on visual experience. How can pervasive mobile technology be used to make oral history archives accessible to a wider audience in creative and playful ways? For a community archive with almost no budget?

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Paper - in formal session
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Jeanie Sinclair

Sharing Stories: Putting the Illinois State Museum Audio-Video Barn Online

Schroeder, E. (2010).  Sharing Stories: Putting the Illinois State Museum Audio-Video Barn Online. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2010. Proceedings.

The Memory Machine: Sound and Memory at the British Museum

Lane, C. (2003).  The Memory Machine: Sound and Memory at the British Museum. (Perrot, Xavier (d. 2007), Ed.).International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting: Proceedings from ichim03.