| HD-51330-11 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Washington State University | Fort Vancouver Mobile | 3/1/2011 - 10/31/2012 | $50,000.00 | Rudyne (Dene) | | Grigar | | | | Washington State University | Pullman | WA | 99164-0001 | USA | 2011 | History, General | Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Digital Humanities | 50000 | 0 | 50000 | 0 | Development of interactive mobile storytelling environment using both iPhone and Android platforms to create a story module focusing on Hawaiians who lived and worked at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site in the mid 1800s.
Mobile phones have become ubiquitous yet remain untapped as a storytelling medium. They offer the power of media, text, audio, video, animation, in a fully personalized format. Through GPS technology these devices even can locate a user and share, on the precise spot, data tailored just for that user's particular interest. Users then can add written responses, video or sound about a site or event. The implications for such authoring precision, audience awareness and interactivity pose exciting challenges to the team creating the Fort Vancouver Mobile project, a storytelling environment accessible via smart phones that tells the history of the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. Phase I, just completed, comprises apps for the iPhone and Android and a story module focusing on Hawaiians who lived and worked at the site in the mid 1800s. Phase II, the focus on this proposal, seeks $50,000 to create modules focusing on gender issues at the site that have, heretofore, gone unexamined. |