Visiting Fellowship - David Bainbridge

班布里奇将于2007年1月/7月从新西兰怀卡托大学的高级讲师职位上休长假。在此期间，他将与伊利诺伊大学和坎特伯雷大学的研究人员合作。他亦会应邀参观新加坡的研究机构和大学(例如南洋理工大学)。我们请求适度的支持资金，使班布里奇能够在斯旺西大学的FIT实验室(计算机科学系的一部分)工作4个月(3月/6月包括在内)，并受益于他广泛的、与国际联系的专业知识和经验。在斯旺西，班布里奇将致力于将移动设备和数字图书馆结合起来的新方法。这一项目工作将补充正在进行的关于移动数字图书馆和数字鸿沟以及更广泛的移动信息访问的FIT实验室项目。班布里奇在斯旺西工作期间，将拜访过去五年来在多媒体数字图书馆领域与他合作的同事Rger并与其合作。最近，Rger接受了开放大学知识媒体研究所(KMI)的教席，两次休假访问新西兰的班布里奇。在KMI工作，Bainbridge将有机会接触到更广泛的工作/叙事性超媒体、社交软件和语义技术/与他的专业领域相关。在英国逗留期间，班布里奇还将对其他合作者进行短暂访问：伦敦大学学院(UCL)(Ann Blanford教授)、玛丽女王学院(Queen Mary‘s)(Mark Sandler教授)和利兹(Lieds)(吴起亚博士)，他们分别在人机交互、音乐数字图书馆、文档内容分析等领域与Bainbridge合作。

Bainbridge will be taking a sabbatical from his Senior Lecturer post at the University of Waikato, New Zealand from January/July 2007. During that time he will collaborate with researchers from the Universities of Illinois and Canterbury. He will also take up an invitation to visit research institutions and universities in the Singapore (e.g. NTU). We are requesting a modest amount of support funding to enable Bainbridge to be based at the University of Swansea in the FIT Lab (part of the Computer Science Department) for 4 months (March/June inclusive) and to benefit from his wide and internationally connected expertise and experience. At Swansea, Bainbridge will work on novel approaches for combining mobile devices and digital libraries. This project work will complement on-going FIT Lab projects on mobile digital libraries and the digital divide and more generally, mobile information access.While based at Swansea, Bainbridge will visit and work with Rger, a colleague he has collaborated with over the last five years in the area of multimedia digital libraries. Recently accepting a chair at the Knowledge Media institute (KMi), at the Open University, Rger has twice had sabbatical visits to Bainbridge in New Zealand. Based at KMi, Bainbridge will have the opportunity to be exposed to a wider body of work/ narrative hypermedia, social software, and semantic technologies/interrelated to his area of expertise. During his stay in the UK, Bainbridge would also undertake short visits to other collaborators: UCL (Prof. Ann Blanford), Queen Mary's (Prof. Mark Sandler) and Leeds (Dr. Kia Ng) who work with Bainbridge in the areas of HCI, music digital libraries, document content analysis, respectively.