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POLARISCOPE – A Platform for the Co-creation and Visualization of Collective Memories

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Design, User Experience, and Usability (HCII 2023)

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POLARISCOPE is an R&D project supported by Digital Humanities and Participatory Media to develop an online platform to collect and share memories. The project aims to evaluate if a mobile-based technological solution, that eases multimedia data collection and generates correlated visualizations from resources shared by users, can enhance the experience and collective memory of events. Namely, aiming the social enrichment of documental archives and events that contribute to memory safeguarding and giving visibility to the cultural diversity of territories. To this end, the digital platform aims to facilitate the collection, cataloguing and sharing of multimedia records (images, videos, sounds, oral testimonials, etc.) and their integration into an aggregation system, which presents correlated visualizations of content shared by several participants. Focused on pilot trials on the territory of Aveiro (Portugal), the platform will document the natural landscape and the tangible heritage and urban fabric and also the social and intangible cultural practices of different communities that mingle in the region. As a tool for collecting and correlating multimedia records in mobility, it also aims to facilitate research field activities with communities, particularly to collect oral testimonies from the elderly with lower digital literacy. In summary, the POLARISCOPE project explores mixed methods to approach digital heritage and digital memories for generations to come, having as a differentiating value the potential of correlated visualizations to provide meaningful insights and trigger the discovery and storytelling possibilities through collective content remix and co-creation.

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The R&D project (grant agreement no. 2022.04424.PTDC) is funded by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

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Velhinho, A., Almeida, P. (2023). POLARISCOPE – A Platform for the Co-creation and Visualization of Collective Memories. In: Marcus, A., Rosenzweig, E., Soares, M.M. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14031. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35696-4_20

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