FUTURE PASSENGER : Mobile, Public, and Locative Media A Study of Mixed Reality Narrative, Interface, and Content to Engage Train Passengers

Google Maps and other living maps (e.g. CartoDB, Mapbox, and Open Street Map) provide an underlying platform for ever more creative, networked, and performative mobile experiences (Dalton, 2015). Furthermore, immersive technologies like augmented reality (AR) provide a spatial paradigm to further connect us to our immediate surroundings. Combining these locative and spatial technologies offers new ways to engage with public spaces (Liao & Humphreys, 2015). This practice-based PhD research aims to use a mobile AR project, Fantasia Express, funded by the UK Ministry of Transport, to investigate a new concept that I call hybrid public space, one that is defined by an interdependent locative digital layer linked to a physical twin. In doing so, I want to create new knowledge that has value to both the creative industries and academics looking to understand the convergence of immersive technology with location and publicness. As a theoretical framework, this thesis considers the insights into the social impact of AR and other technologies, such as their potential to enhance our experience of public space and each other to create a ‘community of strangers’ (De Waal, 2013). My methodological approach encompasses several elements, such as an extensive literature review, developing complex software prototypes, and testing these prototypes with train passengers travelling on the East Coast Mainline. My findings summarise a new approach and design process to develop interfaces for immersive locative projects, new technical approaches to integrating immersive technologies within the existing information technology found on board UK trains, and new production approaches to speed up the iteration of complex software prototypes

Meyouandus: Interactive in-venue displays. Research and Development Report

Arts practice MeYouAndUs will produce TILO, a hybrid display system for cultural venues. It uses digital screens situated in the public spaces of a venue, combined with live feeds and sensors to display engaging, interactive and personalised content. TILO aims to create a dialogue between the arts organisation, the building and its visitors, and will allow artists to carry out their own interventions. The system will be piloted at FACT, the popular cross-arts venue in Liverpool

GA4GH: International policies and standards for data sharing across genomic research and healthcare.

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) aims to accelerate biomedical advances by enabling the responsible sharing of clinical and genomic data through both harmonized data aggregation and federated approaches. The decreasing cost of genomic sequencing (along with other genome-wide molecular assays) and increasing evidence of its clinical utility will soon drive the generation of sequence data from tens of millions of humans, with increasing levels of diversity. In this perspective, we present the GA4GH strategies for addressing the major challenges of this data revolution. We describe the GA4GH organization, which is fueled by the development efforts of eight Work Streams and informed by the needs of 24 Driver Projects and other key stakeholders. We present the GA4GH suite of secure, interoperable technical standards and policy frameworks and review the current status of standards, their relevance to key domains of research and clinical care, and future plans of GA4GH. Broad international participation in building, adopting, and deploying GA4GH standards and frameworks will catalyze an unprecedented effort in data sharing that will be critical to advancing genomic medicine and ensuring that all populations can access its benefits

SBOL Visual: A Graphical Language for Genetic Designs

Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Visual is a graphical standard for genetic engineering. It consists of symbols representing DNA subsequences, including regulatory elements and DNA assembly features. These symbols can be used to draw illustrations for communication and instruction, and as image assets for computer-aided design. SBOL Visual is a community standard, freely available for personal, academic, and commercial use (Creative Commons CC0 license). We provide prototypical symbol images that have been used in scientific publications and software tools. We encourage users to use and modify them freely, and to join the SBOL Visual community: http://www.sbolstandard.org/visual

GA4GH: International policies and standards for data sharing across genomic research and healthcare

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) aims to accelerate biomedical advances by enabling the responsible sharing of clinical and genomic data through both harmonized data aggregation and federated approaches. The decreasing cost of genomic sequencing (along with other genome-wide molecular assays) and increasing evidence of its clinical utility will soon drive the generation of sequence data from tens of millions of humans, with increasing levels of diversity. In this perspective, we present the GA4GH strategies for addressing the major challenges of this data revolution. We describe the GA4GH organization, which is fueled by the development efforts of eight Work Streams and informed by the needs of 24 Driver Projects and other key stakeholders. We present the GA4GH suite of secure, interoperable technical standards and policy frameworks and review the current status of standards, their relevance to key domains of research and clinical care, and future plans of GA4GH. Broad international participation in building, adopting, and deploying GA4GH standards and frameworks will catalyze an unprecedented effort in data sharing that will be critical to advancing genomic medicine and ensuring that all populations can access its benefits