Memetic: From Meeting Memory to Virtual Ethnography & Distributed Video Analysis
Simon BUCKINGHAM SHUM, Michael DAW, Roger SLACK, Ben JUBY, Andrew ROWLEY, Michelle BACHLER, Clara MANCINI, Danius MICHAELIDES, Rob PROCTER, David DE ROURE, Tim CHOWN, Terry HEWITT
Simon BUCKINGHAM SHUM, Michelle BACHLER, Clara MANCINI
Knowledge Media Institute & Centre for Research in Computing, The Open University, UK
Michael DAW, Andrew ROWLEY, Terry HEWITT
Access Grid Support Centre, Manchester Computing, University of Manchester
Roger SLACK, Rob PROCTER
Social Informatics, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Ben JUBY, Danius MICHAELIDES, David DE ROURE, Tim CHOWN
Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
Email address of corresponding author: sbs@acm.org
The JISC-funded Memetic 2 project was designed as knowledge management and project memory support for teams meeting via the Access Grid environment (Buckingham Shum et al, 2006). This paper describes how these capabilities also enable it to serve as a novel distributed video analysis tool to support interaction analysis. Memetic technologies can be used to record, annotate and discuss sessions recorded within a flexible, visual hypermedia environment called Compendium. We propose that beyond the use originally conceived, the Memetic toolset could find wide ranging applications within social science for virtual ethnography and data analysis.
