The Power of Nine
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A Preliminary Investigation into Navigation Strategies for the New Library with Special Reference to Disabled People by Kevin Carey and Roy Stringer. Library and Information Commission Research Report 74.
Date: 01/01/2008
Preface
Acknowledgements
We wish to acknowledge the inspiration of Chris Yapp, the support of Chris Batt and the assistance of Carolyn Davies.
© The Library and Information Commission 2000.
STV/LIC programme report 8
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Grant Number: LIC/RE/110
ISBN 1-902394-46-1
ISSN 1466-2949 & 1470-9007
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The authors
Kevin Carey
humanITy, is the world's first digital charity, and was founded to investigate and tackle social exclusion problems raised by the information technology (IT) revolution.
It acts as a lobbying organisation, a think tank, a concept blueprint developer and a designer of cutting edge projects to test hypotheses about the effect of IT on the most disadvantaged people in society.
humanITy's priority for the year 2000 is to investigate the ways in which universal access to IT will generate radically different forms of social exclusion from those created by IT scarcity; of particular concern will be:
- Information and navigation systems design
- The impact of digital television and mobile telephony on social inclusion
- Collaboration in content creation for people with narrow skills bases through the use of the Internet
During 1999 humanITy acted as adviser to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Library and Information Commission (LIC) and its Director is Co-ordinator of the Information Technology and Disability Alliance (ITDA).
HUBS (Help Us Be Successful) www.hubs.org.uk based in Brighton under the auspices of the Sussex Community Internet Project (SCIP), is a major investigative project to study learning through incremental structural complexity and content creation. This year we will launch another HUBS in the North East of England to investigate collaborative content creation by people with narrow skills bases.
KEVIN CAREY
Director
humanITy
humanITy is the programme name of Access Enterprises for Information Opportunities Universal (AEIOU - United Kingdom Registered Charity No. 1059921.
Contact Details:
humanITy
108 High Street
Hurstpierpoint
W Sussex BN6 9PX
England
Tel: 44 (0) 1273 834321
Fax: 44 (0) 1273 833744
E-mail: humanity@atlas.co.uk
Roy Stringer
Roy Stringer is one of the early pioneers of the digital media industry, producing his first interactive animation in 1983 on an Apple Lisa. Since then he has maintained a leading role in the development of new content based digital media methodologies, from the earliest days of video laser-disk-based projects, through CD-ROM developments and to the present day internet-driven technologies. Throughout his career, his focus has always been on how best to express knowledge and complex ideas in the way that maximises the potential of a given technology, while always ensuring that the interface is as simple and intuitive as possible.
Roy has worked in the digital communications industry since 1985: after a two-year post in Marketing & Sales at Apple UK, he went on to create and develop the ‘HeadStart’ range of Macintosh workstations for people with severe physical handicaps. In 1991, his own company, BIT32, was awarded a DTI ‘Fit for Work’ award for his track record in employing disabled people, and assisting in their employment throughout the UK.
In 1990, he developed an award-winning kiosk installation on modern British sculpture for the Tate Gallery Liverpool (‘Sculpture Interactive’) which was the first in the world to incorporate full-motion video into a graphical user interface. He then spent five years consulting to the Learning Methods Unit at Liverpool John Moores University to develop their highly successful multimedia production team. This relationship produced ‘CytoFocus’, a training product for cervical cancer screeners which won seven major international awards and wide international acclaim.
The success of CytoFocus in turn led to the creation of the University's subsidiary company, Amaze Ltd, which has enjoyed a growing reputation for providing solutions to clients’ problems by combining leading edge technology and high quality design with intuitive navigation schemas based on a detailed analysis of the most effective ways to communicate with target audiences, whoever they may be. Amaze has grown to become a successful commercial organisation with more than 100 employees, working primarily in the areas of web site development and internet integration services for business.
Roy's contributions to the new media industry have been recognised internationally many times through a variety of awards for his productions, including: The Gold Award for Excellence from the European Multimedia Awards (EMMA); three Gold Awards from the British Interactive Multimedia Association (BIMA); two Gold Awards and an Award of Excellence from InVision (a USA based awards body); a Gold Award from the International Monitor Awards (Hollywood based). He also furthers the cause for educational values in multimedia through many conference speaking events, both nationally and internationally, and across a wide range of communities, including technical, government and artistic forums.
Co-author’s note:
Sadly, after completing this important work, Roy Stringer died in January 2001.
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