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Getting Nowhere Slowlylearning from a thousand miles
at walking pace
Alan Dix
http://alanwalks.wales/
Welsh Coast Path
opened May 2012linking existing pathsa single way marked routewith Offa’s Dyke encircles Walesthree full traversals in 2012 (one running)
vision
personalencircling, encompassing, pilgrimage, homecoming,
practicalIT for the walker & IT for local communities
philosophicalreflections on walking and space, locality and identity
researchpersonal agenda and living lab
walking as research
slow! ... and hurts :-/
imposed time frame ... for good & ill
waving banners
using technologyQ. “what technology do you use?”A. “a map”
keeping moving, in the wet, ..
data
locationGPX ... batteries ... sporadic signals ....
bio-sensingECG (heart), EDA (skin) and accelerometers
audio and imagesin the moment
textafter the event
implicit
explicit
+ semantic markup
Hack Alan!
at the margins
social marginality:poor, old, rural
information marginality:poor connectivity, old
devices
IT deepens the divide... but can IT help in the
margins?
mapsreclaiming the local map within technological space
mapping never easier ... so long as it is ‘standard’
“Post-Renaissance maps cover the surface of the world with an homogeneous Cartesian grip”
Barbara Bender
local maps – local concerns
community and cohesion
abandonment and dissolution:Rhyl – dustbin of LiverpoolDee estuary – even the pubs closed
internal strengthPenmaenmawr – in the face of adversitycommunity enterprise: shops, pubs, arts
an interstitial community
caravan site (nearly) in centre of townbut behind, in the gapssemi-permanent residents
locality? parallel communities in same place
language and culture
intimately linkedeven for the non-Welsh speaker!
changed in my lifetimebut under threat again
technological implicationsnot just translations ... media choice etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn
health and well being
logistics and transport:constant stress!! ... and I was just visiting
from mountain goat to geriatric and back
the kind of person …
always connected?
mobile signalabsent or weak
broadband ...not so broad
masts point to seanot land ...yachts = money
https://explore.ee.co.uk/coverage-checker
@ 2013
software makes it worse ...
Twitter 140 chars ... but unusable with poor signalheavy XML API
email slow but works – 1970s technology
Flickr uploader freezes on poor connections... even in Paris!
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while walkingactive
camera, recorderpassive
GPS, ECG, EDA
when stoppediPad, blog, flickr,
social media,uploading data
before/afterweb for planningnew contacts on
Twitter, emailreporting, analysis
while walkingother walkers
occasional friends/family
meeting
when stoppedshop keepers,
B&B proprietors,chance meetings
talks, visits
before/after family and friends,
readers, researchers,
future walkers
socialsphere
technicalsphere
time and place
most things time stamped … but not always same time
GPS … can be interestingespecially paths on slopes
location and path – loops etc.
1058 miles done what next ...
more:w: http://alanwalks.wales/t: @alanwalkswalesf: facebook.com/alanwalkswales