On 29th September, researchers from The Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE) presented ‘ORAgen Fables’, a pilot of their latest ‘ORAgen’ research project. This was part of ‘Doors Open Day‘ in Edinburgh, which included public tours around the Informatics building, Bayes Centre, and Inspace Gallery at University of Edinburgh.

ORAgen is a new attribution and rights management tool developed by DECaDE researchers to probe public understanding and reception to the concept of media tokenisation and rights. ‘ORAgen Fables’ a pilot of the technology, is an interactive demonstrator that explores the value of provenance data through collaborative story writing. Visitors at the Inspace Gallery were invited to add and build upon each other’s contributions to create a backstory about an object. Along with two other research projects from Institute for Design Informatics, ORAgen Fables was presented to understand how audiences engaged with the new version and for their feedback to develop the demonstrator.

Dr. Frances Liddell, DECaDE researcher based the University of Edinburgh commented, “Doors Open Day was a brilliant opportunity for us to test out ORAgen Fables and to see how the public engaged with it. We are looking forward to using what we have learned in the development of ORAgen Fables in preparation for future events and exhibits.”

The Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE) is a five-year EPSRC funded Next Stage Digital Economy Centre, part of the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing exploring how data-centric technologies, such as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and artificial Intelligence (AI) could transform our future digital economy through decentralised platforms.

If you would like to learn more about ORAgen Fables or have a venue we could showcase this interactive part of our research, then please contact Dr. Frances Liddell – fliddell@ed.ac.uk