About
New social media had led to an explosion in personal digital data that encompassed both those expressions of self chosen by the individual as well as reflections of self provided by other, third parties. The resulting Digital Personhood (DP) data was complex, and for many users, it was too easy to become lost in the mire of digital data. This was unfortunate, as these digital representations of self were not only valuable to the individual as a means of self-reflection, but also had great information value as a community, business, and social policy resource.
The ability to represent and edit personal digital data in a meaningful form was crucial to the empowerment of individuals and communities, and it could also generate significant benefit to government and business. This ‘meaningful form’ should have included a filmic, narrative structure that was easy to comprehend and edit and allowed for a simple comparison of one digital life with another. In short, we aimed to build searchable, personal film-like documentaries, ‘Reels’, from existing digital data.
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Team
Prof. Pam Briggs
Research Chair
Northumbria University
Dr. Harith Alani
Senior Lecturer
Knowledge Media Institute
Dr. Matthew Aylett
Research Fellow
The School of Informatics
Dr. Finola Kerrigan
Senior Lecturer
Birmingham Business School
Dr. Lisa Thomas
Senior Researcher
Northumbria University
Dr. Smitashree Choudhury
Research Associate
Knowledge Media Institute
Andrew Hart
Research Associate and PhD Student
Birmingham Business School
Thomas Dickinson
PhD Student
Knowledge Media Institute
Elaine Farrow
Senior Research Programmer
University of Edinburgh
Miriam Fernandez
Research Fellow
Knowledge Media Institute.
Publications
Farrow, E., Dickinson, T. and Aylett, M. (2015) Generating Narratives from Personal Digital Data: Using Sentiment, Themes, and Named Entities to Construct Storie, Demo at Human-Computer Interaction-INTERACT 2015.
Aylett, M., Farrow, E., Pschetz, L. and Dickinson, T. (2015) Generating Narratives from Personal Digital Data: Triptychs, Poster at 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul, South Korea.
Dickinson, T., Fernandez, M., Thomas, L., Mulholland, P., Briggs, P. and Alani, H. (2015) Identifying Prominent Life Events on Twitter, 8th International Conference on Knowledge Capture, New York, America.
Information from the resource website
UKRI – Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grants notice.
