2. Designing
research spaces

3. What do “Research
spaces of the future”
look like?

4. Possibly…
More or less material,
Private or public,
Transferable,
Adaptable and responsive to the
researcher and their context.

5. Walking in the
footsteps of great
researchers

6. PATINA is neither
augmented reality…

7. …nor the
internet of things

9. Portable computing is becoming
increasingly ubiquitous

10. Archaeologists Architectural and
art theorists
Narrative media
experts Engineers
HCI experts
Web scientists

11. Year one

13. Excavations present
a challenging
environment
for technology

14. “It is a well known truism that any equipment that goes
to site ends up broken. Digital cameras are dropped in
buckets of water, mobile phones are buried in trial
trenches, EDMs fall off cliffs. Archaeologists, it seems,
cannot be trusted with equipment that uses batteries
without breaking something - electronic casualty rates
in the field are very high.”
Backhouse, P. 2006. Drowning in Data? digital data in a British contracting unit. In: Digital Archaeology:
Bridging Method and Theory. London: Routledge, pp. 50-58.

15. Communication

16. Disrupting social
hierarchies

17. “How do you design
technologies to support
communication and
disruption?”

18. 1. Know your users

19. Methods include:
Interviews, questionnaires,
diaries, cultural probes,
technical probes, ethnography
and lab testing

23. The ‘ball experiment’

24. 2. Prototype some ideas

29. 3. Evaluate them

30. Year two
(this year)

32. Things to come…
Archaeologists wearing more Looxcies
Experimental gestural, audio, haptic,
affective etc. technologies
Creating new research spaces

33. www.patina.ac.uk