Workshop on the Embodiment of Things (EoT 2021)

The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners from national and international cultural heritage (CH) organisations together with those from across HCI and related fields. We aim to establish how an alertness to tertiary embodiment (mind-body-artefact) can provide the ground for bringing artefacts to life, catalyse collective knowledge production, facilitate collaboration, and encourage the creative integration of computational and archival thinking. Key examples of engaging with this theory in practice can be seen in the projects of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Towards a National Collection research programme. In this workshop we will explore how embodiment can be and has been applied to digital objects and practice in CH collections. We will do this via three interwoven critical interventions: digital objects (digital collections, interfaces, tangible computing), situated interaction (how context shapes meaning) and virtual connections (collaboration and communication in digital rather than physical space (Computer-supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), crowd-sourcing and citizen research, knowledge-sharing).

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Rebecca Hutcheon

John Moore

Eirini Goudarouli

Duncan Hay

Christian Sauer

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Publication date (Print): July 2021

Pages: 1-5

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[0001]The National Archives

Kew

[0002]University College London (UCL)

UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

First Floor, 90 Tottenham Court Road

London W1T 4TJ

[0003]University of Hildesheim

Institute of Computer Science

Universitätsplatz 1

D-31141 Hildesheim, Germany

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2021-W1.0

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Conference name: 34th British HCI Workshop and Doctoral Consortium

Conference acronym: HCI2021-WDC

Conference number: 34

Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 20th - 21st July 2021

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Post-pandemic HCI – Living Digitally

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[1] A Clark 2008a Pressing the Flesh: A Tension in the Study of the Embodied, Embedded Mind? 963 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 1 37 59

[2] D De RoureP Willcox 2020 Scholarly Social Machines: A Web Science Perspective on our Knowledge Infrastructure 12th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci ’20) Association for Computing Machinery New York, NY, USA 250 256

[3] E Fulton 2020 Exploring the possibilities of citizen research and heritage data The National Archives https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/exploring-the-possibilities-of-citizen-research-and-heritage-data/ 24 March 2021

[4] S Gallagher 2005 How the Body Shapes the Mind Oxford Clarendon Press

[5] D Haraway 2007 When Species Meet Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press

[6] J HollanE HutchinsD Kirsh 2000 Distributed cognition: toward a new foundation for human-computer interaction research ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 7 2 174 19

[7] E Hutchins 1995 Cognition in the Wild Cambridge, MA MIT Press

[8] N Johnson 2018 Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury The National Archives https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/beyond-2022-irelands-virtual-record-treasury/ 25 March 2021

[9] D Kirsh 2010 Thinking with external representations AI Soc 25 441 454

[10] G LakoffM Johnson 1999 Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought New York, NY Basic Books

[11] C Leadbetter 2008 We-Think Profile Books London

[12] J LiemE GoudarouliS HirschornJ WoodC Perin 2018a Conveying Uncertainty in Archived War Diaries with GeoBlobs IEEE VIS 2018 Electronic Conference Proceedings

[13] J LiemE GoudarouliS HirschornJ WoodC Perin 2018b WWI00 {World War One Hundred} IEEE VIS 2018 Arts Program demonstrations

[14] D Lupton 2016 Digital companion species and eating data: Implications for theorising digital data–human assemblages Big Data & Society 3 1 1 5

[15] A MaravitaA Iriki 2004 Tools for the Body (schema) Trends in Cognitive 1099 Sciences 8 2 79 86

[16] R MarcianoG JansenW Underwood 2020 Developing a Framework to Enable Collaboration in Computational Archival Science Education 2019 Society of American Archivists Research Forum proceedings https://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/Research_Forum%20_2019_Marciano_final.pdf 24 March 2021

[17] B McGillivray 2020 The challenges and prospects of the intersection of humanities and data science: A White Paper from The Alan Turing Institute https://www.turing.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2020-08/humanities_and_data_science_white_paper_0.pdf 24 March 2021

[18] The National Archives 2021 Becoming the Inclusive Archive https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/our-role/plans-policies-performance-and-projects/our-plans/becoming-the-inclusive-archive/ 24 March 2021

[19] A NewenL de BruinS Gallagher 2018 The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition Oxford Oxford University Press

[20] L.A Suchman 1987 Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication Cambridge Cambridge University Press

[21] L.A Suchman 2007 Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions 2nd Cambridge Cambridge University Press

[22] F VarelaE ThompsonE Rosch 1991 The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience Cambridge, MA MIT Press

[23] S Wilkes 2021 Introducing Project ETNA The National Archives https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/introducing-project-etna/ 24 March 2021

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