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MiMeG – The MixedMediaGrid NCeSS node

MiMeG – The MixedMediaGrid NCeSS node. University of Bristol & Kings College London. Key areas of research. Building on VidGrid pilot project Identifying needs of qualitative social science user communities Understanding social scientific practice

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MiMeG – The MixedMediaGrid NCeSS node

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  1. MiMeG –The MixedMediaGridNCeSS node University of Bristol & Kings College London

  2. Key areas of research • Building on VidGrid pilot project • Identifying needs of qualitative social science user communities • Understanding social scientific practice • Synchronous and Asynchronous support for mixed media qualitative analysis • Capacity building across the social sciences, training, software roll-out programme

  3. Studies of social science practice • Scope of existing systems • Interviews with expert practitioners • Observational studies of existing practices • Studies of MiMeG system in use

  4. Shared real-time text and graphics annotations

  5. Web data services for long-term data analysis

  6. Off-Screen Annotations • (full paper at CHI 2007) • Enable remote understanding of pace and position of off-screen movement • Especially off-screen to on-screen transitions • Requires two components: • Real-time tracking of local off-screen position • Visualising at remote site(s) appropriately

  7. Tracking Annotations Gumstix Computer Ultrasound Receiver Electronic Whiteboard Marker Bluetooth Aerial Battery

  8. Response time results

  9. Response time results 1 second

  10. Studies of MiMeG system in use • (full paper at ECSCW 2007) • Some groups have agreed to be studied in using the software in greater depth • describes the mechanisms researchers use to manage distributed analysis • Local/remote activities • Gestures and imitation • Significant evidence that managing local work is useful for distributed collaboration

  11. Next Steps • Do we aim to preserve/amplify existing practice? (which we have ethnographic evidence works for users) or do we aim to alter practice (based on experimental studies that say collaborative responses are easier to predict) • What do we really want our software to do here – to support or to alter existing practice? • Can we generate new domains of practice in real-time distributed research – is this a better commercial space than traditional workplaces?

  12. Next Steps • Studies of distributed research practice in CSCW are few and lack detail • Buxton’s (1992) Telepresence challenge remains • integrating task-focused activities with object-focused activities is still tough • Real time groupware needs to move into the real world more, and perhaps researchers offer an improved testbed than traditional workplaces for real-time distributed tools

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