Co-Design of a cloud of services for archaeological practice

This paper presents an overview of the results of a multidisciplinary collaboration between several domain experts in the frame of archaeological projects. Since 2001, different independent interactive systems have been co-designed, developed, and tested on the field. The adoption of a semiotic approach to a participatory action design research process with the involvement of domain experts led us to a better understanding of the main characteristics but also the challenges of the archaeological practice and helped us to apply technology in a better and efficient way. The currently undergoing work is focused on the codesign of a cloud of services able at integrating all the tools into a bigger framework to support the archaeological practice in a more pervasive way.