Supporting Shared Sense of History within a Rural Village Community

Cheverst, Keith William John and Taylor, Nick and Do, Trien Van (2019) Supporting Shared Sense of History within a Rural Village Community. In: Into the Wild : Beyond the Design Research Lab. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics . Springer, Cham, pp. 93-113. ISBN 9783030180188

Abstract

In this chapter we present our longitudinal study of a community photo display system known as the Wray Photo Display (Taylor and Cheverst in Int J Hum Comput Stud 67(12):1037–1047 2009, in IEEE Comput 45(5):26–32, 2012) and how members of the community used this display to interact with their past (and each other). Our development of the Wray Photo Display commenced in 2006 as part of a research project which set out to investigate how situated displays could support rural communities, and in particular how such displays could support notions of community. Our analysis of the user generated content (in the form of images and associated comments) submitted to the system reveals a significant proportion related to cultural heritage. The current focus of our work with the Wray community is to provide residents with more sophisticated tools (including mobile tools) to support the shared collection and curation of narratives relating to local history.