Hi all,
Apologies for a blanket message, but would anyone be interested in talking to Simon about the issue below? Sounds like a potentially interesting project. If so feel free to get in touch - I think he's looking for a conversation within the next couple of days.
Thank you! Daria
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Simon Julier sjulier3.1415926@gmail.com Date: 7 July 2016 at 12:14 Subject: Talking to you about potential EPSRC proposals on content creation and reusable content To: Daria.Cybulska@wikimedia.org.uk
Dear Daria,
I'm writing to you at the suggestion of Pam Fisher to see if it would be possible to talk to you about a proposal for the EPSRC call on "Content Creation and Consumption in the Digital Economy" (attached).
I'm a Reader in the Department of Computer Science at UCL. One area we've been working in is the use of augmented reality to get people to engage with local history. AR can be used to take historical information and put it in context. We've done a number of pilot projects (the promo video for our most recent prototype system is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaNpAGQQT84 - I managed to avoid appearing in the video) and what's become clear is that a fundamental problem is the authoring tool - how does information get put into the system in the first place?
* In particular, we're very concerned with two problems: (a) how can one create reusable content which isn't locked up in some weird proprietary system with some strange format which can't be used elsewhere? (b) how can we make it easier for somebody to author content in 3D without high end tools.* Would it be possible to talk to you about these issues? If so, when would be convenient?
Yours sincerely
Simon Julier