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Lisa Harris

Educational innovator & disruptor at University of Southampton. Champion of Web Science, Digital Literacies & Digital Marketing MOOC. Open access only please. Fascinated by transformative potential of technology for education and business.

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Digital Literacies Workshops and Conference

There are still a few spaces available for staff and students on the following events. These are informal sessions run on behalf of the Centre for Innovation in Technologies and Education (CITE) by Fiona Harvey, Lisa Harris and the Student Digital Champions. 1.     Online Identity Workshop: 22nd May at 3pm in 85/2207. This is a chance for you to review how you appear online and take an active role in making deliberate changes. Continue reading →

#SxSC: Chronotape

Peter Bennett will talk about Chronotape which is a tangible timeline for family history research, developed as part of the PATINA project within the Bristol Interaction & Graphics group. The chronotape explores the concept of using a tangible interface to control time, effectively turning the abstract concept of time into something that can be held and controlled. Links http://chronotape.com/ http://www.patina.ac. Continue reading →

#SxSC outline schedule

This is an outline schedule of talks and demonstrations for #SxSC. Anyone attending is invited to talk and demo their work. 10.30am Composer Benjamin Mawson investigates ways to use space as an expressive layer in studio-produced music. Developer Enrique Tomas has built a tool using GPS to interpret a listener’s position and movement in order to create a unique way of hearing music. Musical compositions can now be spread across a landscape, mapped to a territory. Continue reading →

Southampton hosts RCUK Digital Economy “IT as a Utility” Network+

Many congratulations to Professor Jeremy Frey whose £1.5 million Network+ award has now been announced by RCUK. “As part of a new way of better taking forward existing research and training investments the RCUK Digital Economy (DE) Theme has set up a network in each of its four priority challenge areas: IT as a Utility, Communities and Culture, New Economic Models and Sustainable Society. “Each ‘Network+’ has received £1. Continue reading →

SXSC Demo: Tsinghua-Southampton Visualisation

The Tsinghua-Southampton exchange program was set up to serve as a platform for young researchers to exchange ideas on key issues within Web Science. The chosen project was to analyze, extract and visualize how the young perceived the world using online data. As part of the Visualization team Christopher Hughes will be demonstrating the chosen tools that we used to represent the data, highlighting some key issues and concerns. Continue reading →

SXSC Presentations: Virtual RTI

James Miles will outline the use of Reflectance Transformation Imaging - a simple and cheap surface imaging tool - on existing three dimensional datasets in a virtual environment. He will show some worked examples, and evaluate the potential of the methodology within cultural heritage. He will focus on comparing the different datasets and will highlight the surface detail that could be overlooked through conventional means of visualisation. Continue reading →

SXSC Presentation and demonstration of “Music You Can Walk Inside”

Music composed in the digital studio has always been heard on loudspeakers. All of the theatre and unpredictability of a performance is absent. Composer Benjamin Mawson investigates ways to use space as an expressive layer in studio-produced music. Developer Enrique Tomas has built a tool using GPS to interpret a listener’s position and movement in order to create a unique way of hearing music. Musical compositions can now be spread across a landscape, mapped to a territory. Continue reading →