Social tagging allows users to associate tags with information items, such as music files, texts, pictures, etc. At CSL we are investigating how social tagging can be used as a component of community memories to annotate aspects of the environment as experienced by people. Concrete projects are under way within the context of the Tagora EU Project.

Team: Nicolas Maisonneuve, Peter Hanappe

Additional funding: Tagora

A Mobile Sensing Network augments mobile devices, such as mobile phones, with sensing capabilities. Through the use of custom, generic sensor interfaces, we aim to turn these devices into mobile measurement stations for measuring aspects of the environment.

We are currently experimenting with sensors attached to mobile phones and software to localise, upload and aggregate the sensory data. Social tagging adds a layer of meaning to the quantitative information which is visualised through websites and on the mobile device itself.

Team: Nicolas Maisonneuve

Project: NoiseTube

The project will be presented at the Sony CSL Open House 2009 on Oct. 9.

How do you choose from a collection of thousands of images? CSL researcher Peter Hanappe has developed the “Linking Linke” project which dives into the vast archive of pictures by Armin Linke and explores how coherent collections can be made using the technologies of social tagging and emergent semantics on the one hand, and the dynamical processes between users on the other.

Team: Melanie Aurnhammer, Peter Hanappe

 Collaborations: Armin Linke, Michelle Brunello, Stefano Graziani, and Students of the Faculty of Arts and Design, Università IUAV di Venezia, ClaVES undergraduate degree in Visual Arts and Theatre