I am pleased to announce the release of the complete suite of AR outputs related to Dante’s Divine Comedy, which have been developed through the SCARLET project. These can be accessed by downloading the outputs PDF and scanning the QR code to enter the SCARLET Dante Junaio channel. Working with Guyda Armstrong (Department of Italian, School … Read more
On Monday 1st October, myself and the two technical leads from the University of Creative Arts (Marie-Therese Gramstadt) and University of Sussex (Rose Lock) took part in a technical workshop in Manchester. The main aim was to gain a basic knowledge of how to create Natural Feature Tracking(NFT) channels in AR, linking printed images to … Read more
Staff from the SCARLET team have been awarded the joint second prize for the Association for Learning Technologists “Learning Technology of the Year” team award. The award’s overall purpose is to celebrate and reward excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the learning technology field. The SCARLET team, led by Mimas and involving academics from the … Read more
As part of the on-going work to evaluate and disseminate the work being done with the SCARLET Project, we conducted a simple and straightforward survey for Dr. Guyda Armstrong’s 3rd year undergraduates from the pilot course “Beyond the Text: The Book and Its Body” which used the SCARLET app with Special Collections. The survey was … Read more
As part of the on-going development of SCARLET, beyond the pilot course, “The Book and Its Body”, a group of Dr. Guyda Armstrong’s first-year students in ITAL10300, “Contemporary Italian Culture” were asked to participate in a focus group on 26 April 2012. As with the pilot course, Matt Ramirez demonstrated the app to the students … Read more
John Hodgson, Jo Lambert and Matt Ramirez recently hosted a workshop at the John Rylands Library to demonstrate the Scarlet augmented reality project to archivists and librarians from other institutions in the region (though Alison Cullingford will no doubt wish us to point out that Bradford is firmly in Yorkshire!). Our guests were treated to a sneak preview of … Read more
SCARLET has featured in a variety of journals, websites and newsletters in recent months. This post outlines a summary of key publications and provides access to each. CILIP Update Hodgson, J., Lambert, J., Ramirez, M. (2012), Augmented reality: a new vision for Special Collections. CILIP Update. February 2012, pp. 43-45. An OA copy of the article … Read more
SCARLET featured as a poster session at LILAC, the Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference, 11-13 April 2012 in Glasgow. The poster provides a brief overview of the project and incorporates an Augmented Reality aspect. After downloading the Junaio app you can interact with our SCARLET AR poster to see members of the team materialise from the printed … Read more
Une démonstration du projet SCARLET est à présent disponible, afin de permettre aux utilisateurs de visualiser un échantillon du contenu du projet. Afin d’accéder au contenu, téléchargez l’image ci-dessous et imprimez-la en couleurs. Suivez ensuite les instructions de navigation afin de permettre au navigateur Junaio AR de démarrer la démonstration du contenu SCARLET. Il convient … Read more
Last week I attended the ELI conference in Austin, Texas to present on the progress to date of the SCARLET project and early evaluation findings. The conference was full of provocative ideas and innovative uses of mobile technology, most notably Chris Dede from Harvard who spoke about the EcoMOBILE (Ecosystems Mobile Outdoor Blended Immersive Learning … Read more