Heritage Empath - An Embodied Storytelling Experience

遗产移情探索使用定位移动的媒体，激发人类社会关系的同情。该项目对历史同理心特别感兴趣--挑战历史景观和遗产地的游客，让他们站在过去几代人的立场上，促进对过去事件和环境的更主观的参与。遗产提供了一个可行的框架来测试共情的方法，因为它吸引了广泛的公众兴趣，和热情的公众观众对谁测试项目的输出。参观历史遗迹的游客在被邀请思考历史行为者和历史情境时，熟悉视角、证据和意图等问题，并熟悉历史重建和解释的富有想象力的方法。近年来，国家信托基金会和历史皇家宫殿等遗产组织对为游客开发更具沉浸感、“现实主义”、情感和情感的体验表现出了极大的兴趣，一些创新的方法现在已经得到了试验。然而，很少或根本没有研究已经进行了评估什么是移情游客参与可能需要或现有的模式已经成功的程度。因此，Heritage Empath寻求做三件事：1）更好地理解同理心作为解决问题的实用工具的价值，2）研究当前的最佳实践（在遗产领域内外），并建立一个移情参与的应用程序，该应用程序适用于人类社会关系的各种领域，3）通过围绕英国一个城市布里斯托过去和现在的移民经历建立一个案例研究来测试这些知识。Heritage Empath收集和策划历史和生活移民到城市的个人故事，并将其融入沉浸式和互动式体验，可免费下载到个人移动的设备，然后仔细评估其对观众的影响。以这个框架为基础，我们希望创造一个简单易用、适应性强的产品，向遗产行业的利益相关者进行营销，并提出这样一个问题：通过与比较历史经验的联系，当今社会关系的挑战能否得到有益的解决？我们能否通过他人的视角和经验，通过在历史想象的“安全区”中首次遇到当代社会问题，更好地理解当代社会问题？遗产移情工程与过去的经验，到位，然后将其应用到现在的创新和主观的形式。

Heritage Empath explores the use of locative mobile media to inspire empathy in human social relations. The project is particularly interested in historical empathy - challenging visitors at historical landscapes and sites of heritage to step into the shoes of past generations, facilitating a more subjective engagement with past events and circumstances than would otherwise be possible. Heritage offers a viable framework for testing empathic approaches because it attracts broad public interest, and enthusiastic public audiences on whom to test project outputs. Visitors to historic sites are familiar with questions of perspective, evidence, and intention when being invited to think about historical actors and situations, and with imaginative approaches to historical reconstruction and interpretation. Heritage organisations such as the National Trust and Historic Royal Palaces have shown a good deal of interest in developing more immersive, 'realistic', affective and emotional experiences for their visitors in recent years, and a number of innovative approaches have now been trialled. However, little or no research has been carried out to assess what an empathic visitor engagement might require or the extent to which existing models have been successful. Heritage Empath seeks to do three things therefore: 1) to reach a better understanding of the value of empathy as an applicable and practical tool in problem solving, 2) to research current best practice (both in and beyond the heritage field) and build an application for empathic engagement that works and is designed to be adaptable for use in a variety of fields in human social relations, 3) to test that knowledge by building a case study around past and present experiences of migration in a single British city, Bristol. Heritage Empath collects and curates the personal stories of historical and living migrants to the city and incorporates them into an immersive and interactive experience, freely downloadable to personal mobile devices, and then carefully evaluating its impact upon audiences. Using this framework as a basis, we hope to create a simple to use, adaptable product for marketing to stakeholders in the heritage industry and to ask, can challenges to social relations in the present day be beneficially approached through association with comparative historical experience? Can we better understand contemporary social problems through the perspective and experience of others, by first encountering them in the 'safety zone' of historical imagination? Heritage Empath works with past experience, in place, and then applies it to the present in innovative and subjective form.