Embedding Magic: AR in outreach

我们的项目儿童魔幻现实主义的新空间互动：AR和档案(以下简称CMR：AR)有两个主要目标。第一个项目是对手机上新的增强现实技术的设计研究。我们认为，对于如何让增强现实(AR)应用中的数字空间变得更有趣、更有创意，并与它们所体验的真实环境建立更真实的联系，存在着以不同的方式思考的真正潜力。为此，我们研究了面向儿童的魔幻现实主义文学。大卫·阿尔蒙德是一位作家，他把魔幻现实主义故事放在东北部及其周边地区。他的档案最近被我们的项目合作伙伴七个故事：国家儿童图书中心获得。我们与Seven Stories的专家、儿童和年轻人以及智能手机开发人员合作，将David书中关于地点和记忆的想法转化为使用设计原型研讨会在特定地点遇到AR对象的互动设计想法，使参与者能够突出他们的知识。魔幻现实主义对于沉浸式技术的开发特别有趣和有用，因为它将日常场所和事件与诡异、神奇或奇幻的元素融合在一起。通过这种方式，我们也为其他希望委托使用身临其境技术的新数字作品的文化组织树立了一个过程的典范。我们的目标是为这样的组织提供更好地与设计师和开发人员合作的想法。我们的新提案采用了在我们的研讨会上开发的交互设计研究想法，并将其用作教育和推广工具，与泰恩河畔纽卡斯尔经济困难地区的年轻人合作。与我们的合作伙伴合作，我们将采用我们开发的研讨会方法，并将它们转化为七个故事，可以带到城市东区的学校和社区团体。我们将与我们的合作伙伴一起，与儿童和年轻人一起开展创意设计活动，展示我们对记忆场所和身临其境技术的想法，并使参与者能够将他们与自己所在的社区联系起来。我们的后续项目也将努力进一步发展我们对文化组织和数字开发商的影响。我们将与纽卡斯尔及其周边的当地文化组织和数字专业人士计划并推动一系列简短的研讨会，介绍我们的合作过程，并将其与他们的数字战略联系起来。通过这样做，我们的目标是在文化组织委托和开发身临其境技术中的新数字作品方面产生影响。

Our project Children's Magical Realism for New Spatial Interactions: AR and Archives (henceforth CMR:AR) had two main aims. The first contribute to design research for new Augmented Reality technologies on mobile phones. We argued that there was a real potential for thinking differently about how the digital space in Augmented Reality (AR) applications could be made more interesting, creative, and have more genuine connections to the real environment in which they are experienced. To do that we looked at magical realist literature for children. David Almond is an author who situates magical realist stories in and around the North East. His archive had recently been acquired by our project partners Seven Stories: The National Centre for Children's Books. We worked with specialists from Seven Stories, with children and young people and with smartphone developers to translate ideas about place and memory from David's books, to interaction design ideas about encountering AR objects in specific places using design prototyping workshops to enable participants to foreground their knowledge. Magical realism is particularly interesting and useful for the development of immersive technologies because of the way that it blends everyday places and events with eerie, magical or fantastical elements. By working in this way we were also modelling a process for other cultural organisations who wish to commission new digital work with immersive technologies. Our aim was to provide such organisations with ideas for better collaboration with designers and developers. Our new proposal takes the interaction design research ideas developed in our workshops and uses it as an education and outreach tool working with young people in economically disadvantaged areas of Newcastle upon Tyne. Working with our partners we will take the workshop methods we have developed and translate them into a Seven Stories offer which can be taken to schools and community groups in East End wards of the city. Together with our partners we will work with children and young people in creative design activities which will present our ideas about memory place and immersive technology and empower participants to relate them to their own community locales.Our follow on project will also work to further develop our impact with cultural organisations and digital developers. We will plan and facilitate a short workshop series with local cultural organisations and digital professionals in and around Newcastle to present our collaborative process and to relate it to their digital strategies. By doing so we aim to have impact in the commissioning and development by cultural organisations of new digital work in immersive technology.