<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>This is just a reminder of tomorrow's seminar titled "Open Data Islands and Communities" by Prof. Alan Dix (<a href="http://alandix.com/academic/">http://alandix.com/academic/</a>), in MB373 from 2pm to 3pm.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Luca</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 December 2017 at 09:55, Luca Rossi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:l.rossi@aston.ac.uk" target="_blank">l.rossi@aston.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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Next Tuesday (05/12) Prof. Alan Dix (<a href="http://alandix.com/academic/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://alandix.com/academic/</a>)<br>
will give a talk titled "Open Data Islands and Communities" in MB373<br>
from 2pm to 3pm. For more details on the talk, see below.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Luca<br>
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Abstract:<br>
How do we make digital technology serve those at physical and social<br>
margins of society? Digital technology, not least the internet, has<br>
transformed many aspects of our lives. Crucially, in many countries<br>
access to digital technology has become an essential part of the<br>
nature of modern citizenry for commercial services; for access to<br>
access to government, and for participation in democratic processes,<br>
for example much of the UK Brexit and US Presidential campaigns were<br>
fought on Facebook. However, the ability take advantage of digital<br>
technology is not uniform, those at the margins typically have<br>
disproportionately poor access, both in terms of physical connectivity<br>
and skills. There is a danger that digital technology can deepen the<br>
existing divides in our world. In this talk I will look at these<br>
issues and most importantly ways we can, as researchers and<br>
practitioners, seek to create technologies that serve all communities.<br>
I will focus particularly on open data, how we can devise ways to make<br>
it more easily found, accessed, and visualised by small communities at<br>
the edges, and moreover how they can become active creators of<br>
information: producers not merely subjects of data. I will draw on<br>
experience in a number of projects on the small Scottish island of<br>
Tiree and also my 1000 mile walk around the edges of Wales.<br>
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Bio:<br>
Alan Dix is a part-time Professor in the HCI Centre at the University<br>
of Birmingham and part-time independent consultant, researcher and<br>
educator. He has worked in human–computer interaction research since<br>
the mid 1980s, and is the author of one of the major international<br>
textbooks on HCI as well as of over 450 research publications covering<br>
topics from formal methods to creativity including some of the<br>
earliest papers in HCI on topics including privacy and mobile<br>
interaction. In 2013 he produced an HCI MOOC that is now hosted at<br>
InteractionDesign.org and in the same year he walked 1000 miles round<br>
the coast of Wales. The data from the latter is available in the<br>
public domain as an ‘open science’ resource. Many recent projects have<br>
a data theme including an analysis of the UK REF public domain data<br>
and working with musicologists on re-imagining digital archives for<br>
the humanities. He organises a twice yearly workshop, Tiree Tech Wave,<br>
on the small Scottish island where he lives, and where he has been<br>
engaged in a number of projects relating to heritage , communications,<br>
energy use and open data.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Luca Rossi</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Lecturer in Computer Science</div><div dir="ltr">School of Engineering and Applied Science</div><div dir="ltr">Aston University</div><div dir="ltr">Web: <a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rossil/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.aston.ac.uk/~rossil/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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