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Learning-through-touring : mobilising learners and touring technologies to creatively explore the built environment
This book uncovers ways in which people interact with the built environment by exploring the spaces around, between and within buildings. The key idea embodied in the book is that learning through touring is haptic - the learner is a physical, cognitive and emotional participant in the process. It also develops the concept that tours, rather than being finished products, are designed to evolve through user participation and over time.
Book
Crowds, citizens and sensors: process and practice for mobilising learning
Participatory sensing is an emerging field in which citizens are empowered by technologies to monitor their own environments. Harvesting and analysing data gathered in response to personal or local enquiries can be seen as an antidote to information provided by official sources. Democratising sensing means that ordinary people can learn about and understand the world around them better and can be a part of the decision-making in improving environments for all. In this paper, we review and describe participatory sensing and discuss this in relation to making a series of prototype tools and applications for mobile users—
Located Lexicon
,
Where’s Fenton?
and
Tall Buildings
. In the first of these projects,
Located Lexicon
, we wanted to find out whether a lexicon of terms derived from user-generated content could enable the formation of Twitter like groups that allow users to engage in finding out more about their location. In the second project,
Where’s Fenton?
we made a publicly available app that involves users in counting the abundance and logging the location of deer in a park. This project focused specifically on anonymity of the user in collecting data for a specific enquiry. In the last project,
Tall Buildings
, we experimented with using dimensions of altitude, distance and speed to encourage users to physically explore a city from its rooftops. In all of these projects, we experiment with the pedestrian as a human sensor and the methods and roles they may engage in to make new discoveries. The underlying premise for our work is that it is not possible to calibrate people to be identical, so experimenting with crowd-sourced data opens up thinking about the way we observe and learn about the physical environment.
Journal Article
Learning-Through-Touring
Learning-through-Touring uncovers ways in which people interact with the built environment by exploring the spaces around, between and within buildings. The key idea embodied in the book is that learning through touring is haptic--the learner is a physical, cognitive and emotional participant in the process.
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Productive Participants
Presented as a consumer product as part of a quality assured service provision, the guided tour carries expectations of receiving authoritative information about a site. The ‘point, click and listen’ audio devices that allow users to select from preloaded content as they move around a gallery, museum or tourist attraction, for example, illustrate how technology has been used to provide visitors with the same information about objects in front of them. Users are able to choose information that provides an interpretation of the object from a particular point of view.
Book Chapter
A Methodology for Learning-Through-Touring
At the start of this book I suggested that an implication of exploring a shift in subjectivity from guide to participant is that a new methodology for learningthrough-touring would be developed to generate new pedagogy for situated learning and to contribute to knowledge about the built environment.
Book Chapter
Traits of the Tour and Tour-Guide
The dictionary definition of the tour as a noun is a ‘journey from place to place [that comprises] of visits to a number of places on a route through an area.’259 The transitive definition of the tour as a verb is to make a tour or ‘circuitous journey, in which many places are visited, usually without retracing one’s steps; to make a prolonged excursion for recreation or business’260 and the action of making a tour is described as ‘arranging’ for a ‘series’ of visits.261
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