Curating conversations across the arts: utilising Internet of Things technologies in arts audience research.

首席研究员（PI）在设计和领导各种艺术形式的创新研究项目方面享有盛誉。这项研究响应了PI的AHRC文化价值项目中确定的需求，以及她的AHRC创意经济资助项目，通过该项目，她开发了QUAL（www.qual.org.uk），这是一个基于网络的定性研究资源，旨在与艺术从业者和组织合作。PI已经确定需要创新的，具有成本效益的定性观众研究经验，建立艺术组织的内部研究能力。作为艺术领域经验丰富、技术精湛的研究领导者，PI的领导力将为一项复杂的研究带来独特的见解、凝聚力和知识，该研究将探索艺术研究中数字技术的能力建设和创造潜力。这个领导奖学金将通过利用她的研究助理，程序员和编码员的专家团队的互补技能和人才，在爱丁堡大学设计信息学中心创造艺术观众研究的转型步骤变化。这个雄心勃勃的独特项目，由PI领导，将通过提升聊天机器人技术在定性研究中的价值，重新构想由本研究的研究助理开发的当前Ethnobot物联网（IoT）应用程序技术。Ethnobot是一款用于智能手机的民族志研究聊天机器人应用程序，预先编程了一系列问题和后续响应，以便策划对话并捕捉用户对特定事件的即时情绪和想法。这项研究将通过Ethnobot应用程序规范推进物联网和人工智能在定性艺术观众研究中的使用研究，旨在满足多个案例研究的研究需求，艺术体验和观众。Ethnobot观众研究经验将专门为九个艺术项目开发，特别是共同委托（由PI和案例研究组织）为这个项目。案例研究组织的多样性是本研究的主要优势之一，因为Ethnobot App技术将在不同的受众和创意环境中开发和多样化。其结果将是Ethnobot应用程序已经探索，开发和压力测试沿着艺术研究背景的连续性，一端是移动的公共艺术体验，另一端是基于表演的研究体验。特别是在移动的背景下，PI和团队将使用Ethnobot App移动的技术来探索社区再生以及公共和街头艺术项目和装置在苏格兰城市和沿海社区的艺术家，观众和利益相关者中的生活体验和影响。PI汇集的组织星座将利用观众发展研究项目：爱丁堡大学研究收藏中心（https：collections.ed.ac.uk），利斯晚（数字壁画线索）（www.leithlate.co.uk），开放/关闭邓迪（www.openclosedundee.co.uk），国家（www.thestateleith.com）和房间8工作室（https：//room8studio.wixsite.com/room8studio）。在基于性能的背景下，该团队将创建Ethnobot物联网应用程序研究体验，成为艺术体验的扩展和/或嵌入其中。他们将通过与Red Note Ensemble（www.rednoteensemble.com）、利斯晚期（电影装置）（www.leithlate.co.uk）、Craft Scotland（www.craftscotland.org）和氖（www.northeastofnorth.com）的四个特别合作项目来做到这一点。在完成该奖学金后，该项目的Ethnobot应用程序将与案例研究示例和用户指南一起从PI的QUAL网站上免费下载。

The Principal Investigator (PI) has developed a reputation for designing and leading innovative research projects across a diverse range of art forms. This study responds to a demand identified in the PI's AHRC Cultural Value project, and her AHRC Creative Economy funded project, through which she developed QUAL (www.qual.org.uk), a qualitative research web-based resource designed with and for arts practitioners and organisations. The PI has identified a need for innovative, cost-effective qualitative audience research experiences that build the in-house research capacity of arts organisations. As an experienced and highly skilled research leader within the arts, the PI's leadership will bring unique insights, cohesion and knowledge to a complex research study that explores the capacity building and creative potential of digital technology within arts research. This Leadership Fellowship will create a transformational step change in arts audience research by harnessing the complementary skills and talents of her specialist team of Research Assistants, programmers and coders based at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Design Informatics. This ambitious and unique project, made possible and led by the PI, will reimagine the current Ethnobot Internet of Things (IoT) App technology developed by this study's Research Assistants, by advancing the value of chatbot technology in qualitative research. The Ethnobot is an ethnographic research chatbot App for smartphones, pre-programmed with sets of questions and follow up responses in order to curate conversations and capture user's in-the-moment emotions and thoughts on a particular event. This study will advance the research on the use of IoT and AI in qualitative arts audience research through Ethnobot App specifications designed to meet multiple case studies research needs, artistic experiences and audiences. The Ethnobot audience research experiences will be developed specifically for nine artistic projects especially co-commissioned (by the PI and the case study organisation) for this project. The diverse nature of the case study organisations is one of this study's key strengths, as the Ethnobot App technology will be developed and diversified across the different audiences and creative contexts. The result will be Ethnobot Apps that have been explored, developed and stress-tested along a continuum of artistic research contexts, with mobile public art experiences at one end and performance-based research experiences at the other. Specifically in the mobile context, the PI and the team will use the Ethnobot App mobile technologies to explore community regeneration and the lived experiences and impact of public and street art projects and installations among artists, audiences and stakeholders across Scotland's urban and coastal communities. The constellation of organisations brought together by the PI will utilise audience development research projects with: University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research Collections (https://collections.ed.ac.uk), Leith Late (digital mural trail) (www.leithlate.co.uk), Open/Close Dundee (www.openclosedundee.co.uk), The State (www.thestateleith.com), and Room 8 Studio (https://room8studio.wixsite.com/room8studio). In the performance-based context the team will create Ethnobot IoT App research experiences that become an extension and / or embedded in the artistic experience. They will do this through four specially co-commissioned projects with the Red Note Ensemble (www.rednoteensemble.com), Leith Late (film installation) (www.leithlate.co.uk), Craft Scotland (www.craftscotland.org) and NeON (www.northeastofnorth.com). On completion of this Fellowship, the project's Ethnobot Apps will be made freely downloadable from the PI's QUAL website, together with the case study examples and a user guide.