PhD Topic
Visual Mnemonics for the storage and retrieval of
audio-visual digital media in creative projects
Supervisor(s): Prof Ernest Edmonds and Prof Ross
Gibson
There is a problem with storing and retrieving certain
classes of digital audio-visual media files using information and communication
technologies that employ text-based indexing systems. Representations specific
to their creators, whether home movie buffs, documentary film-makers or
artists, do not currently have access to tools or systems that satisfactorily
address image-based file storage.
This research plans to use practice-based research to
investigate the precept of a taxonomy using visual mnemonics. The objective is
to advance our understanding of the most effective means by which creators and
audiences, could be enabled to store and retrieve the media files with which
they work.
Design approaches will explore a range of possible practical
purposes and outcomes including the creation of interactive journals and
diaries and augmented memory systems for public exhibition.
To explore HCI design options for storage and retrieval
systems for digital video, using a taxonomy of indexing based not on text but
on the mnemonics inherent within the sourced visual media. To advance our
understanding of the most effective means by which creators and audiences,
could be enabled to efficiently store and retrieve audio-visual digital media
files which are important to creative expression.
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Mnemonic - a device to aid the memory; (in
later use) spec. a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations which assists in
remembering something. (OED)
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Taxonomy of indexing: classification of order
and associations, defined by user/author
¥ A series of design options for the storage and retrieval
of digital video based on visual mnemonics, for specific groups of Ômemory
workersÕ:
a)
the
individual artist/author/designer
b)
the
specialist community
c)
the
general audience
¥ An artwork that demonstrates (a) the individual artist/author/designer.