SERENA PROJECT MEETING 3

1st – 4th March 2011, Lancaster University

Advisors Present:
Clive Gillman Director DCA,
Prof Brian Longhurst, MediaCity, FIRM Director.

At the 3rd project meeting we shared early results from studies through presentations and a workshop session. Xu Sun and Sarah Sharples presented the results of the ‘mobile serendipity diary study’. We also explored the projects growing network, and the contacts SerenA is working with from external people and other academic groups, to industry contacts, all of these have had direct connections the team.

The team visited the new LICA (Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Art) building at Lancaster University, an interesting space built to promote interdisciplinary research and education.

As well as all that Ruth, Jon, Geraint, Diana, Jamie, Rob and Scott had an extra day looking at the development of the SerenA system architecture.

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Presentations included:

• A SerenA Overview and ‘Knowledge Mapping SerenA’s Network’ with Mel Woods
• ‘Applying a User Centered Approach to Understanding Serendipity’ Xu Sun and Sarah Sharples.
• ‘Demo Twitter Analysis’ Scott Piao and  Jon Whittle
• ‘Demonstration of a Multi Agent Environment’ Ruth Aylett, Diana Bental, Jamie Forth, Rob Stewart and Geraint Wiggins.
• ‘Understanding the Serendipity Space’ Stephann Makri
• Identifying and Prioritising serendipitous research tasks and associated agent competencies’ Stephann Makri and Jamie Forth