Vickers, Richard (2012) UX as a critical success factor for participatory projects: enhancing the user experience to encourage participation. In: EADiM Academic Network Conference, 22-23 Nov 2012, University of Graz, Graz, Austria. (Submitted)
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Online participatory documentary project ‘24-hours.in’ (www.24-hours.in <http://www.24-hours.in> ) empowers people to document their city or location and lives, using mobile camera phones and available devices. The project aims to provide a democratic framework for a community vision to develop, exploring the rich diversity and vibrancy of life around the world. An interactive project, 24-hours.in explores opportunities for participation, collaboration and the potential democratisation of documentary production. As part of the continued development of the project we have enhanced the user-experience, for a participatory project of this nature UX design is a critical factor for success. The initial framework for uploading video clips has been refined into a step-by-step process and should the contributor have more than one video to add to the project, data is retained to remove the need to re-input information. For the next phase of development a separation of the website and automated video conversion is planned freeing up server resources and allowing a more asynchronous video upload and conversion experience. Another area of particular focus for forthcoming development, and one that requires additional R&D is the automated extraction of location-based data from submitted video clips. With this feature implemented the project will shift in a totally new direction and become totally user curated.
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| Additional Information: | Online participatory documentary project ‘24-hours.in’ (www.24-hours.in <http://www.24-hours.in> ) empowers people to document their city or location and lives, using mobile camera phones and available devices. The project aims to provide a democratic framework for a community vision to develop, exploring the rich diversity and vibrancy of life around the world. An interactive project, 24-hours.in explores opportunities for participation, collaboration and the potential democratisation of documentary production. As part of the continued development of the project we have enhanced the user-experience, for a participatory project of this nature UX design is a critical factor for success. The initial framework for uploading video clips has been refined into a step-by-step process and should the contributor have more than one video to add to the project, data is retained to remove the need to re-input information. For the next phase of development a separation of the website and automated video conversion is planned freeing up server resources and allowing a more asynchronous video upload and conversion experience. Another area of particular focus for forthcoming development, and one that requires additional R&D is the automated extraction of location-based data from submitted video clips. With this feature implemented the project will shift in a totally new direction and become totally user curated. |
| Keywords: | user experience, participatory design, camera phone |
| Subjects: | P Mass Communications and Documentation > P430 Interactive Publishing P Mass Communications and Documentation > P310 Media Production W Creative Arts and Design > W280 Interactive and Electronic Design |
| Divisions: | College of Arts > Faculty of Media, Humanities & Performance > Lincoln School of Media |
| Depositing User: | Richard Vickers |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Oct 2012 20:05 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2012 20:05 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/6665 |
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