Name your case study Live feeds

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Name your case studyLive feeds

• Name of Contributor(s)?
• Project
• Date

Dear participant, Please use this template to
record a case were your project used, or
attempted to use, participatory web technologies
to resolve a problem / issue emerging from your
work. These incident will be collated by the
Planet project, and used to identify common
patterns. Note failure is often a better
teacher than success. The key to a good case is
in illustrating a common problem.
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Paste illustrative image / diagram if available
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Situation

• A tagline for your project or work
• The Spots project is expanding the boundaries of
  leopard apparel (see http//www.spotsproject.org/
  )
• Describe the user group and the work context
• Spots has a team of 20 researchers in 4 sites in
  the UK and 2 in Alaska. Some are also working
  with the Stripes project.
• Describe your technological setup
• We use gps devices to track leopards and mobile
  displays to present our new designs to them. The
  designs are stored on a wiki and downloaded to
  the displays by sat phone.

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Task

• Describe what you are trying to achieve, e.g. a
  problem you have encountered in your work, which
  you hoped to resolve using participatory web
  technologies. Describe the forces in play.
• We wanted to collate real time data on the
  leopards' reactions to the designs. Data needed
  to be indexed chronologically and geographically,
  and linked to discussions on the wiki.
  Researchers found it hard to take detailed notes
  in cases of negative reaction.

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Actions

• How did you try to address the issue?
• We equipped researchers with video cams, which
  were rigged with a live sat broadcast link.
  Researchers would enter the time, location and
  link to the design on the wiki before starting a
  presentation. They would then record and
  broadcast the reaction live.

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Results

• What were the outcomes of the actions you took?
• When the sat link was good, researchers found
  this a very productive method. However, a few
  researchers has technical difficulties operating
  the gear. Unfortunately, they could not be
  interviewed.

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Observations

• Lessons you've learnt and conclusions youve
  drawn
• Organise training and mentoring on using the
  equipment. Were also trying recording off-line
  if the sat link is down. Researchers may need
  electronic tagging we still cant locate some
  of them.