Abstract

This paper introduces the early stages of the research conducted by the recently awarded Horizon project (RCUK 2009-14), in which an interdisciplinary team comprising staff from Computer Science, Psychology, Sociology, Business, the Arts and Humanities collaborate with over 36 industrial partners to research and develop new ways to use the electronic ‘footprints’ we leave behind whenever we utilise mobile, internet and other digital technologies.

We focus specifically on one of Horizon’s projects, ‘The Documentation and Archiving of Pervasive Experiences: The case of Rider Spoke’ (2010), which aimed at creating a new tool called ‘CloudPad’ for the annotation of time-based media.

• Gabriella Giannachi (UK) is Professor in Performance and New Media, and Director of the Centre for Intermedia at the University of Exeter. Her book publications include Virtual Theatres (2004) and Politics of New Media Theatre (2007).
• Duncan Rowland (UK) is the Senior Research Fellow in Social Computing at the Mixed Reality Laboratory in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. He published over forty articles and exhibited at CHI, SIGGRAPH, UbiComp and the London ICA.
• Steve Benford (UK) is Professor of Collaborative Computing at the Mixed Reality Laboratory in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. He published over two hundred works including two award-winning papers at CHI (2005 and 2009).

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