'Participate' research project enables public to create and share digital conten
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A consortium of industry and academic experts is working on a £3 million collaborative research and development project called Participate, which aims to demonstrate and evaluate how new technologies can help people to take a more active role in creating and sharing digital content. Participate is supported through the Technology Programme with grant funding from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
The project will explore the convergence of pervasive, online and broadcast media to create new kinds of mass-participatory events in which a broad cross-section of the public contributes to, as well as accesses, content - on the move, in public places, at school and at home.
The Participate consortium is made up of BT, the BBC, Blast Theory, Microsoft Research Cambridge, and ScienceScope, the University of Bath and the University of Nottingham.
The consortium plans to undertake three trial activities in 2006/2007, to which the general public and a network of schools will be invited to participate as appropriate. Participants will be asked to capture and contribute information about their local environment. This can then be used to augment professionally created media, building a national picture of environmental situations across the UK.
Welcoming the new partnership, Science and Innovation Minister, Lord Sainsbury said, This initiative provides a real opportunity to harness the world class expertise that we possess in the UK and direct it towards the task of wealth creation. By providing a focus for collaboration and delivery, this partnership should establish British industry as the world leader in this area and be an attractive proposition for investors.
The first trial took place this month with two schools in the Bath area, and looked at how mobile phone technology and sensors can be used to explore environmental issues.
Children were given prototype mobile phones fitted with sound sensors and data loggers to monitor carbon monoxide and noise pollution levels on their journey to and from school. A second schools trial is planned for September, and the results of this and the gaming and community trials - will form the basis of a larger national pilot in 2007/2008.
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