VEMI Lab cited in Dartmouth News article
Dartmouth News reported on a collaboration between Dartmouth researchers and the University of Maine’s Virtual Environmental and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Lab. Mark Williams, a professor of film and media studies at Dartmouth, and John Bell, lead applications developer in Dartmouth’s Academic Commons, were awarded a two-year research and development grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to build a cross-platform tool to help scholars study historically important films and television programs being preserved and digitized in archives around the world, according to the article. Working with the VEMI Lab, the researchers will build a semantic annotation tool, part of a suite of complementary, open-source research applications to let scholars create, annotate, save and share time-based clips of historical media, the article states. The VEMI Lab specializes in studying and designing adaptive technology interfaces that assist visually impaired people with information access.