Street Life Renaissance Florence: A digitally triggered location-based tour in an augmented reality environment

这一提议的核心是一份1593年的文件，描述了一个虚构的“酒吧爬行”穿过佛罗伦萨，大致从外围到中心，这是由佛罗伦萨文学院的一名成员写的。这份文件，确定为正在进行的研究的一部分，在AHRC资助的连接社区试点项目，酒馆，当地人和街头角落的RA（大卫罗森塔尔博士），引发了提出一种创新和引人入胜的方法来展示新的研究在一个媒体，将有广泛的吸引力，广大公众的游客和旅客在佛罗伦萨，世界领先的文化之都之一。该应用程序将呈现为大约十五个站点的行程，用户可以按照“旅游”或以任何顺序访问（或以“扶手椅”模式远程访问）。除了为这次旅行提供一个框架外，这份1593年的文件还谈到了酒馆文化在近代早期提出的一些问题--阶级关系和社交的性质;饮酒对狂欢节或节日文化的重要性;饮酒（葡萄酒）的身心愉悦和益处;以及公共行为的冲突和监管。该应用程序将解决这些问题，除其他外，在广泛的历史背景下，在各个网站的旅游，使用来自一系列来源的故事-文学，行政，信件，编年史-阐明点在一个容易消化的方式。因此，该应用程序将使用当代地图，图像和当代文档的片段，用户将能够在现场访问。它还将有一个口头叙述，用户可以选择插入。还将提供链接，以进一步阅读，为那些谁想要更多的细节和分析，可在现有的项目网站：tavernsproject.com。PI和RA将与一家专业公司合作，研究和开发地理定位应用程序，Calvium Ltd.（http：//www.appendice.com/about-calvium/）是应用领域用户体验设计的行业领导者，负责开发各种基于位置的应用（例如：卫报街头故事）; PI已经与该公司进行了讨论，探讨如何开发该应用程序，以实现用户研究的创新目标，通过与其他社交媒体平台的连接，提供反馈和参与。我们将举办一个初步研讨会，届时手持设备故事/步行的技术和行业专家将与RA和PI一起探索和更好地定义研究目标，以及如何通过数字触发的基于位置的技术实现这些目标。随后将采用Calvium建议的迭代过程来测试，然后完善这个想法，并最终创建一个工作原型或概念证明。我们预计，这第一个“概念证明”将很容易重新编辑，以纳入未来的其他内容。PI和RA的目标是在合理的范围内学习所应用的方法和途径，以便他们能够管理、维护和调整最终产品，并从开发人员那里获得少量的后续服务。我们已经确定，这种产品既有受众，也有需求。佛罗伦萨旅游局（APT）对这一想法很感兴趣，并将通过他们的网站和城市中的各种WiFi热点进行宣传，提供实物支持;此外，佛罗伦萨的各种英语大学课程也表示有兴趣采用该应用程序。此外，这一建议是特别及时的地理信息系统制图和数字技术的应用，以测绘现代早期佛罗伦萨是吸引注意的领导在北美（芝加哥和多伦多）和欧洲的学术同事。2013年6月，PI和RA确实受邀在佛罗伦萨艺术史研究所举办的数字制图研讨会上发言，这将为我们的项目提供一个理想而著名的展示。

At the heart of this proposal is a document from 1593, a description of an imaginary 'pub crawl' through Florence, roughly from periphery to centre, that was written by a member of a Florentine literary academy. This document, identified as part of ongoing research in the AHRC-funded Connected Communites pilot project, Taverns, Locals and Street Corners by the RA (Dr David Rosenthal), triggered the idea to propose an innovative and engaging approach to presenting new research in a medium that will have wide appeal to a broad public of tourists and travellers in Florence, one of the world's leading cultural capitals.The app will be presented as an itinerary of roughly fifteen sites, that can be followed by a user as a 'tour' or accessed in any order (or remotely in 'armchair' mode). Apart from providing a skeleton for the tour, the 1593 document speaks to a number of the issues that tavern culture raises in the early modern period - the nature of class relations and sociability; the importance of drink to carnivalesque or festive culture; the pleasures and benefits, physical and psychological, of drinking (wine); and the conflicts over, and policing of, public behaviour. The app will address these issues, among others, in a broad historical context at various sites on the tour, using stories from a range of sources - literary, administrative, letters, chronicles - to elucidate points in a easily digestible fashion. The app will thus use contemporary maps, images, and snippets of contemporary documents that the user will be able to access while in situ. It will also have a spoken narrative that the user can choose to plug into. Links will also be provided to further reading for those who want more detail and analysis, made available on the existing project website: tavernsproject.com. The PI and RA will work with a specialist company in the research and development of geo-located apps, Calvium Ltd. Calvium (http://www.appfurnace.com/about-calvium/) are industry leaders in user-experience design in the app sector and have been responsible for developing various location-based apps (e.g. Guardian streetstories); the PI has already been in discussion with the company to explore how the app might be developed to achieve innovative goals in the research of user-response feedback and involvement through connecting to other social media platforms. We will hold an initial workshop where technology and industry specialists in story/walk for handheld devices will come together with RA and PI to explore and better define the research aims and how these can be achieved through digitally triggered location-based technologies. An iterative process suggested by Calvium will subsequently be employed to test and then refine the idea and subsequenty create a working prototype, or proof of concept. We anticipate this first 'proof of concept' to be easily re-edited for inclusion of additional content in the future. The aim for both PI and RA is to learn - within reason - the methods and approaches applied so that they will be able to manage, maintain and adapt the final product with minor aftercare from the developer. We have established there is both an audience and demand for this product. The Florence tourism office (APT) are enthusiastic about the idea and will offer in-kind support through publicity through their website and various wifi hotspots in the city; also various Florence-based English-language university courses have expressed an interest in adopting the app. Moreover, this proposal is especially timely as GIS mapping and the application of digital technology to mapping Early Modern Florence is attracting attention from leading academic colleagues in North America (Chicago and Toronto) and Europe. The PI and RA have indeed been invited to speak at a workshop on digital mapping in June 2013 at the Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florence, and this would provide an ideal and prestigious showcase for our project.