Who and what is TalesOfThings.com?
TalesOfThings.com launched in April 2010 and is an online platform which enables users to tag physical objects and share object-related stories and memories through homemade media. The platform is part of an academic research project called TOTeM: Tales of Things and Electronic Memory. TOTeM is funded by the Research Councils UKs Digital Economy programme and brings together researchers from five British universities: Edinburgh College of Art, University College London, Brunel University, The University of Salford, and The University of Dundee. As academics, we work in a range of areas (e.g. digital architecture, geography, computer science, business, design, and social research), but we all share an interest in people, artefacts, memories, time, space, and innovative technologies. Wed like to find out what happens when real objects, real people and real stories get linked via the World Wide Web, and how people make use of TalesOfThings.com in the months and years to come.
