PG05 - Planning - 03 July 2013

I am now at the stage after the Postgraduate Show, where with 13 weeks left, I am thinking on what are the best routes to take to complete both the Major Project and the C.A.R.D.

With both (1)Tutor feedback, and (2)Prototype feedback (and hopefully (3)Research Proposal feedback) plus organised (4)Prototype Tests, I plan to consider a variety of strategic directions with the Prototype/Major Project, and also a direction that integrates well with my chosen (5)Career path.

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Forward planning - Interactive Digital Media - Prototype (15 May 2013)

1.Re-look at brief
Cycle 2
- Research Proposal
- Initial User Research
- Prototype (Product ready for user testing) - subject 'Designing experiences'
- Documentation of Concept/Prototype to Moodle.

Learning Outcome: A1.Reflect upon research into emerging, innovative practice and knowledge and relate their findings to their practice-based work.

- Evaluate and reflect upon theory and practice
- Devise a Research Strategy
- Evaluate a range of Research Methodologies
- High level skills of self direction/problem solving.

20 minute presentation
Prezi/other Presentation format (Not Powerpoint)

1a.Invite Alan Barker and associate to the Presentation - Wednesday 29th May, 12.00, level 1
1b.Invite Robert Pratten and associate to the Presentation

A.Tutorial Outcomes:

*Email Will about the Touchscreen table. - DONE

*Set aside a location for the Web-based interactive. - DONE
Talk to Environment Design - Camilla,- planning of the space.

*Think about the Toolkit.

*Project Proposal - Resend to Brian, and cc Britta, (Design team) Camilla Benson, Yun cho. - DONE

*External funding - who would support the project?

Alot of time has gone into the project.

Continue on the same project, after the MA?

1.Make the project as versatile as possible.
2.Where is the project going to go?

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Examine changes needed

- Email Will - Table - PC
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- Add timeline into the interactive.

What is the interaction? - behaviour?



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2.Writing the Research Proposal ***
2500 words



(7 weeks)

Dates:
15 May
22 May
29 May
5 June
12 June
19 June
26 June

Prototype Planning and Decisions (01 May 2013)

Date now: Wed 1 May

Build Timeline in Excel then Processing
Themes

Build a basic timeline.

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Presentation - End of May

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What is the core experience?

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Create Designs for the Interactive
1430x805px

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View User Guide for Samsung SUR40

separate accessories:
HDMI
RCA stereo cable
Optical cable
LAN cable
VESA mount

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2 USB ports (ie.Keyboard and Mouse)
HDMI OUT (MONITOR)
HDMI-DVI (AUDIO OUT)
DIGITAL AUDIO OUT (AMPLIFIER)
HEADPHONE/MICROPHONE SOCKET
LAN CABLE CONNECTION
MICRO SD (HC) CARD SLOT CONNECTION (up to 64 GB)

Built in 10W x 2 speakers

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PixelSense/taking 60 pictures a second (reacts to light)

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Possible seat ordered to be placed next to the prototype

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Environment Lighting Optimizer

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*Interaction

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MS Surface 2.0
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg680397.aspx

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Industrial Revolution - timeline
http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/ir/irchron.html

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merged image idea - that moves seamlessly between images...

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multiple touch, multiple stories that can be compared, and contrasted
- to help with research

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Hierarchies:

SITE LINK
  STORY THEME
    STORY
       STORYPOINT/IMAGE + INTERACTIVE OPTIONS

PERSON
    RELATED PEOPLE

TIMELINE
   CENTURY
     DATE

EAST GREENWICH MAP
     SITE MAP

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rotatable - handler

centre point

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List of Tasks

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Rotation
http://btk.tillnagel.com/tutorials/rotation-translation-matrix.html

Learning Processing Software (25 April 2013)

size(1920, 1080);
     background(192, 64, 0);
     stroke(255);
     line(150, 25, 270, 350);

- Sets the dimensions, background colour, stroke color, and line direction.


Load and display image
http://processing.org/learning/basics/loaddisplayimage.html

Feedback from peer group (24 April 2013)

Feedback from group:
- iPad, other apps - even suggested from group
- Processing
- What are the theories?
- How do I test the methodologies
- Who are the users?, research report from TourismG
- online version
- Touch Screen Table / History of Green
- possibility for going mobile/ties in to walk
- focus on storytelling/character being central to the story
- look at Story themes/character development/identification of the person
- analytics - how to test the interactive
- identify one area, complex.
- processing, look at timelines.

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Meeting with Andrea

Look at Processing:

http://www.openprocessing.org

http://iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-tools-utilities/82561-how-to-create-ios-apps-in-windows-using-visual-studio.html

http://natureofcode.com/book/

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theme which contains story, which contains a fragment.

define classes

story fragment
link/click area = code
timeline

void setup, fixed dimensions

image help - processing.org

http://forum.processing.org/topic/the-easiest-way-to-layer-images

book - learning processing

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Comments from Peter

Who owns a future, nano-payments. - book
(control over data)
Corporate social responsibility

Presentation Feedback - 17 April 2013

Notes from Presentation Feedback:

Alex:
Look at iPad as an opportunity
Possibility of Augmented Reality, on site.
Look at WebGL, device independence, rather than Flash.
Opening up to a wider audience, through more devices

Robert:
Add case study - Visit NMM - Nelson
Look at Great Map, NMM
Liked the telegraph story, but concerned that stories might be too dry and broken.
Can the stories be told in an interesting way?
How are the images and stories being gathered?

Alan:
In 2014 there will be the Cruise Liner terminal - place for interactive

Kat:
Spanish language - greenwich...why?
What are peoples main questions? When they are in front of the interactive?
Can you answer these questions? Ie.Where is the NMM, Where is North Greenwich, etc?

Britta:
Is the technology novel/innovative?
Have you looked at the three user types? Write personas, and then test them.

Can people add their own stories?

Thinking about the objectives/user research/building the prototype (10 April 2013)

Thinking about the objectives/user research/building the prototype.

What do I want to find out?

Define what Interactive Microstories are?
Examine Strategies for increasing User Participation
Establish a Toolkit to create Interactive Micro-Stories

Aim: Provide a Toolkit for Students, Teachers and Businesses to construct Microstories

Research the history and development of the Micro-Stories trend
Compilation of Case Studies for Micro-Stories
Compilation of Case Studies for Touchscreen Technologies
Demonstrable Research of User Participation in the context of Micro-Stories

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TEST WITH THE USER:
*Navigation Wayfinding
*Length of Immersion
*Retention/Memorisation.

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How they are navigating through the system
Engagement/amount of time/How long they stay on?
Were you interested or confused?
Check their retention. Through a survey.
Website they can sign up to. Calculate the interest.
Look at Twitter.

How long should it take to read a microstory?

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2500 words for Research Proposal

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Building the prototype:

What I will have ready in 5 weeks time: (by 8 May 2013)

19th century history:

Interactive Table
Software
Test Enderby Wharf/Enderby Brother/CableTel
Front Screen - Map
Click Site
Site View
Site Figures


Second site - later - Frank Hills Chemical Works/Tide Mill

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Put together A4 print outs to give to people.

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Mental models

Book: Unfolding the Napkin, Dan Roam

- Detail, more overview

How to measure?

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STORY MAPPING

Mental Map/
The Brain - node builder.
http://www.thebrain.com/products/thebrain/
Nodes - PersonalBrain.com

Draw out mental model of stories, with linkages.
Rewriting can alter linkages.

1.Branching story map diagram
As a spreadsheet.
2.Panned photo map flash animation, inside viewing window.
Text moves, photos fade in/fade out.

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STORY INPUT

1.Virtual Keyboard/Physical Keyboard Input to Touchscreen Table
Contact Peter T in winchester, way to write and record stories, and upload background story photos into a touchscreen, via nodes. Virtual keyboard entry/plugin keyboard.
2.Input via Website/Blogfeed, and exported to standalone files
Stories written via a website/blogfeed, and compiled into a set of files. Might not inlcude fudicial code.

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Can I provide a way for people to add stories
- into the interactive?

Select Site
Add Story
Save
Delete Story

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Two approaches:

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Contact Imano designer

Writing out Microstories - Approaches (06 April 2013)

Set of Rules to apply:

- Has a beginning, middle and an end, however the end should not necessarily be at the end.
- Usually has terse, short paragraphs
- Is more concise that a short story
- Microstories have viral, marketing potential, on social networks
- Microstories can be poetic and emotive
- Microstories are a product of the acceleration of information on the internet, and need to absorb information quickly to make informed decisions.
- Microstories are created for the Twitter generation! (Are there many previous examples before Twitter?)
- Colour code your microstories to understand them
- Microstories are often the subject of writing contests, to test people’s ability to write terse writing.
(idea that pictures are worth a thousand words, if so what is 100 words – a small photo?)
- A Micro Story is a story of predetermined maximum length which still contains the essential elements of narration: one or more characters acting in a more or less settled time and space, according to the traditional idea of introduction, climax and resolution.
- Keep verbs
- Remove joining words
- In super micro-stories (below 10 words), the key info are dates, people, and constructions.
- Reduce duplication. If something has been stated in a sentence. Remove later duplications.

Try 100 words
Try 50 words
Try 25 words
Try 10 words
Try 5 words

Story 1:

William Johnson had patented a tide mill design in 1801. In 1802 he approached Morden college and asked if he could lease a site for ‘a water corn mill’ – a tide mill with a wheel which could be adjusted to the ebb and flow of the tide.
(45w)

William Johnson patented a tide mill design in 1801. In 1802 he approached Morden college to ask to lease a site for ‘a water corn mill’.
(25w)

William Johnson patented a tide mill design in 1801. In 1802 he asked to lease a site for ‘a water corn mill’.
(20w)

William Johnson patented a tide mill design 1801. 1802 he bought a site for ‘water corn mill’.
(15w) - comfortable limit.

Johnson tide mill design 1801. 1802 leased site corn mill.
(10w)

Johnson tide mill 1801. 1802 leased corn mill.(8w)

cut style
1802. Johnson. design tide mill. 1802. lease corn mill.
(9w)
(which opens up to the larger text.)

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The first Telegraph Cables
In 1837 the Enderby brothers were approached by William Cooke, the pioneer inventor of the telegraph, who asked for help in developing a specially insulated rope. This was for the earliest experiments in setting up the electric telegraph in which Cooke wanted to establish an electric telegraph across the Thames. It was possibly this cable that was used in the first trials of the telegraph on the railway up Camden Bank between Euston and Camden Town. If so, this means that the earliest effective telegraph cable was made in Greenwich. Later owners of the site made cables that stretched across the world and in so doing followed on work already done by the Enderby family.
(118w)

The first Telegraph Cables
In 1837 the Enderby brothers were approached by William Cooke. This was for an experiment in which Cooke wanted to establish an telegraph across the Thames. Possibly it was this cable that was used in the first trials of the telegraph on the underground. If so, this means that the earliest effective telegraph cable was made in Greenwich. Later owners of the site made cables that stretched across the world.
(73w)

In 1837 the Enderby brothers were approached by William Cooke. Cooke wanted to establish a telegraph across the Thames. Possibly this cable was for the first trials of the telegraph on the underground. Later owners of the site made cables that stretched across the world.
(45w)

In 1837 Enderby brothers were approached by William Cooke. Cooke wanted to establish a telegraph that could run across the Thames.
(20w)

1837 Enderby brothers approached by William Cooke. Cooke wanted a telegraph that could run across Thames.
(15w)

1837 William Cooke approached Enderby brothers. Cooke wanted telegraph across Thames.
(10w)

cut style
1837. William Cooke approached Enderby brothers. Wanted telegraph across Thames.
(10w)

Review and Planning for PG04 (03 April 2013)

Re-read brief for PG04
- Develop a concept
- Build a prototype

Learning Cycle 1

Presentation:
POSTER PRESENTATION - Research and Concept - establish Market Interest
- *Invite Prospective Users to Presentation - DONE - TStoryteller/Greenwich
- *Design Poster - TODO
- *Quotes for printing Poster/Print Poster at College? - TODO
- *Print A1 Poster - TODO

What should the Poster achieve?
- Pitch to prospective users of the Prototype
- Provide a contact point for the Project

Structure for Poster (based on Abstract)
1.Motivation/problem statement / historical/contemporary context
2.Methods/procedure/approach (list aims and objectives)
3.Results/findings/product
4.Conclusions/implications

*PRESENTATION SCRIPT
- present concept for 5 mins
(must be interactive)


PROTOTYPE
- must include analytics for user tracking
- create diagram - profile map
- create diagram - plan map

RESEARCH PROPOSAL - FIRST DRAFT (2500 words?) (500 words for Literature Review)
- *Write Research Proposal

Make a prediction of Major stages of work for the Research
Stage 1 -
Stage 2 -
Stage 3 -
Stage 4 -
Stage 5 -

Research Proposal: First draft, include theories and literature review. Upload a written document that clarifies your idea for PG04/PG05 leading to your CARD. Title, 300 words abstract, 1000 words methods and methodology (what, why, how, where and when).

research question
Define an objectives in terms of seeking to enhance knowledge and understanding in relation to the question or problem to be addressed.

research context
Why is it important that these particular questions or problems should be addressed, what other research is being or has been done conducted in this area, and what particular contribution this project will make to creativity, insight, knowledge and understanding in this area.

research methods
Why have you chosen the research methods and why does this methods provide the appropriate means by which to answer the research questions.


- reflect upon research into emerging practice - backed up with *Case Studies, related to practical work.
- devise a Research Strategy - enables concept development processes to be realised
- evaluate and implement a range of research methodologies (ie.surveys, interviews,field studies, visits, libraries,museums.)
- informed decision making in tackling problems

Aim 1:
Aim 2:
Objective 1:
Objective 2:
Objective 3:
Objective 4:
Objective 5:
Objective 6:

User Research

- positioning of project within relevant discourses
ie.microstories
heritage
touchscreen technologies

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Telegrams - terse messages with similarity to Micro-Stories (02 April 2013)

Orville Wright telegram

176 C KA C3 33 Paid.      via Norfolk Va
Kitty Hawk N C Dec 17
Bishop M Wright

7 Hawthorne St

Success four flights thursday morning all against twenty one mile
wind started from Level with engine power alone average speed
through air thirty one miles longest 57 seconds inform Press
home Christmas.                          Orevelle Wright            525P      

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describes a clipped way of writing that attempts to abbreviate words and pack as much information into the shortest possible number of words and or characters.
On telegrams, space was at a premium—economically speaking—and abbreviations were used as a matter of necessity

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Write a Telegram in not more than 25 words.

MISSED TRAIN STOP REACHING THIRTEENTH BY IA 302
DELHI-MUM-DEL

http://wps.pearsoned.com/wps/media/objects/6524/6681325/Telegram%20writing.pdf
• Use minimum number of words while writing the address and the message.
• Payment is made as per the number of words used in the telegram. Sender’s
name and address is not paid for.
• Only capital letters are to be used except in the column ‘Not to be
telegraphed’.
• Punctuation marks are not to be used. Write ‘Stop’ where a full stop has to be used.
• Avoid using words like ‘Mr’ or ‘Shri’.
• Write the message briefly. Do not worry about grammatical errors.
• In the space marked ‘Senders name’ you should write the name in one word.
In case of an official telegram, the designation of the sender and the name of
the company should be given.
• Numerals are not used in the telegram. For 10 pm, you should write Ten Night.
• No column should be left blank.
• Only the actual message and the sender’s name are counted in the word limit.
• One mark is deducted if the student fails to copy the proper layout.

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http://targetstudy.com/languages/english/telegram-writing.html

Personalities of the Greenwich Peninsula (17 March 2013)

Personalities of the area

TUIO - Touchscreen technologies for Tabletop applications (14 March 2013)

Cruiser Framework
http://chai.it.usyd.edu.au/Projects/Cruiser

Reusable Software Framework for developing Tabletop applications


What am I trying to do?

Create draggable microstories, draggable images, and buttons that might highlight sections of the map.

Layers:

Interactions
Content
CSS
Javascript framework
Cruiser framework
TUIO
Browser - Chrome
Windows

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Processing.org

TUIO Library for Processing
http://jlyst.com/tz/

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TUIO - Technologies
http://www.tuio.org/?software

TUIO Flash Library

http://bubblebird.at/tuioflash/guides/using-the-tuiomanager/

Get Interactive working in Flash with AS3
(Best for a visual interface/sound)

Install AIR beta

TUIO Manager
two custom even classes are:
TuioTouchEvent
TuioEvent

Install AIR SDK

Install FLEX SDK

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Planning - Proposal/Main Stories - PG04 (14 March 2013)

Revise A4 Proposal

Read on how to write a proposal text.

Invite 1-2 more organisations to the presentation
Choose 3-5 sites, maximum.

Greenwich Industrial Microstories
- stories that can be said in 30 seconds.

5 Story Folders

What are the 5 most important stories for the area?

Ask Mary to speak out condensed micro stories
- would require her to prepare versions for:
1.Enderby Wharf - Telcon Cable Factory
2.Thames Soap and Candle Co.
3.Anchor Iron wharf?
4.Delta Metal and the Ice Factory
5.Blackwall Point Tide Mill

others:
Tar Works - Sussex Wharf
Point Wharf - Lewis and Stockwell Shipyard
Greenwich Linoleum Works
Blakely Gun Factory
Phoenix Jetty
Frank Hills Chemical Works
Nortons Barge Yard
Improved Wood Paving Co.
Greenwich Sawmills - Imperial Wharf
Gas Holders
Portland Cement Works
Bay Wharf - Horseshoe Breach
Granite Wharf - J.Mowlem
Lovells Wharf - Tide Mill
Power Station
Corbetts Boat Yard
Ammunition Works
Angerstein Wharf
Tunnel House
Amylum Tunnel Refineries
Victoria Deep Wharf
The Pilot Inn
Dreadnought School


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"A history of making things in North Greenwich"

Start building the Interactive Prototype
Build in Analytics
Elements of tQuery? - run locally
Large image as presentation layer
Interactive elements as css/js.

Prepare for Interview with Mary Mills

PG04 Actions (13 March 2013)

1.WRITE AN A4 PROPOSAL (300 words)
to send to (invite to the presentation)

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2.SEND A4 PROPOSAL TO: (SUGGESTED CLIENTS)
Mary Mills?

CISCO
NMM
GREENWICH COUNCIL
RAVENSBOURNE

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3.ARRANGE INTERVIEW with Mary Mills

Book CLR equipment for Interview.

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4.WRITE RESEARCH PROPOSAL - 2500 words
Research Question.
How I will test the theory with the data.

Literature Review - should be at least 500 words.
2 books/2 people/1 case study

Test strategies/Add to the framework.

Who is doing the same thing in the same area?

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5.TABLE TOUCHSCREEN

User Testing

Table Touchscreen - contact Will

cc

User Manual

Drivers

Content - Software

Built-in PC

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http://old.gold.ac.uk/world/millen/peninsula.html

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Visit to Greenwich Tourist Office:

E-marketing
alanbarker@royalgreenwich.gov.uk

Tourism Office
wendytang@royalgreenwich.gov.uk


Suggested Project Titles: (Add into Blog)
Greenwich Marsh Stories
Bugsby's Reach
Industrial Greenwich
Industrial Peninsula
Industrial Stories
Greenwich Industrial Heritage Stories
Industrial Heritage Stories of North Greenwich
Innovative History
Stories of Inventive Greenwich
Invention and Ingenuity
Innovation and Industry in North Greenwich
A history of Innovation in North Greenwich

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Contact Chris Thompson - for a contact at Greenwich Council.
- Industrial Heritage/Tourism.

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Ask for Photos to be reproduced, by Mark Goffe?
- credit


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TUIO Framework
http://www.tuio.org/?members

How to conduct User Research (11 March 2013)

How to conduct User Research

https://www.uie.com/articles/starting_user_research/
http://www.webcredible.co.uk/services/user-research.shtml
http://www.uxmatters.com/topics/user-research/
http://boxesandarrows.com/extreme-user-research/
http://www.gurtle.com/ppov/2009/12/06/a-summary-of-user-research-methods

Direct User Contact - where researcher interacts with users/audience
Also known as IDI - Individual depth interview - conducted in users context.
Structured or Semi-structured.
Proxy Interview/Key informant/Intermediary interview

Focus Group
Small group discussion
Storytelling sessions - Anecdote circles

Workshops

Card sorting - IA design technique, research audience mental models.
http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/cardsorting/blog/card_sort_analysis_spreadsheet/

Product Reaction Cards
Contextual inquiry - unstructured inquiry
Visual Anthropology - photograph environment and behaviour of audience
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
Example of an Ethnographic film

Shadowing
Researcher follows his participants around as they undertake tasks

A word on Ethnography

Ethnography is the practice of immersing oneself in the world or culture that one is studying. This means you go into the field to observe their rituals and behaviour in their “natural setting”, but also that you take your subjects’ perspective when analysing and reporting. Thus, these methods very much belong in the direct user contact category. (Note: the term “ethnography” is also used to refer to the resulting written account of the research)

While there is much academic debate about what is or isn’t Ethnography, my take is that any of the methods on this page that involve collecting data straight from the audience an appropriate environment—that is not a usability lab—can be considered ethnographic methods. For a more in-depth explanation of ethnography, watch this video

Indirect User Contact

Content inventory - content audit
Heuristic evaluation - user assesses system based on set of usability guidelines
Competitor review - comparison through heuristic review
Questionnaires and surveys
Panels
Analytics - good to add onto prototype. / Eyetracking / Heatmaps.
Workplace observation
Photo ethnography - self-reporting from the user
Cultural probes - creating a kit for participants to record their lives.
good when there isnt much contact with the participant.
Virtual ethnography - monitoring blogs, discussion forums, and social networking applications.

Evaluative Methods

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Client List/Understanding of Mission/Audience (10 March 2013)

CLIENT 1: Royal Borough of Greenwich (Greenwich Council)
http://www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/site/
Mission:
Audience:
(TO VISIT)

CLIENT 2: Museum of London
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Docklands/
Mission:
Audience:
(TO VISIT)

CLIENT 3:  National Maritime Museum
http://www.rmg.co.uk/national-maritime-museum/
Mission:
Audience:

CLIENT 4: Greenwich Heritage Centre
http://www.greenwichheritage.org/
Mission:
Audience:
(TO VISIT)

CLIENT 5: Alcatel Lucent (Cable Telecommunications)
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/
Mission:
Audience:

CLIENT 6: Greenwich Industrial History Society (GIHS)
http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=britishhistory;id=4;url=http%3A%2F%2Fgihs.gold.ac.uk%2F
Mission:
Audience:
(TO VISIT)

CLIENT 7: GMV (Greenwich Millenium Village)
http://gmv.gb.com/
Mission:
Audience:
NOT VISIT

CLIENT 8: Greenwich Royal Tours, Walking Tours
http://www.greenwichroyaltours.com/
Mission:
Audience:
(TO VISIT)

CLIENT 9: Greenwich Tourist Information Centre (Visit Greenwich)
http://www.visitgreenwich.org.uk/tourist-information-centre
(They have a table touchscreen!)
Mission:
Audience:
(TO VISIT)

CLIENT 10: Visit Greenwich
http://www.visitgreenwich.org.uk
(Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site Marketing Group)
Mission:
Audience:

CLIENT 11: o2/AEG
http://www.theo2.co.uk/
Mission:
Audience:

CLIENT 12: Greenwich Society
http://greenwichsociety.org.uk/
Mission:
Audience:
(TO VISIT?)

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Research Sources (prep for Methods and Methodologies) - 10 March 2013

Research sources!

Primary sources (are created for the first time)
- Interview with Mary Mills
- Questionairre(s) - with users, public, or companies?
- Site visit - Greenwich Peninsula
- Site visit - The Mill
- Site visit - Light, Hayward Gallery
- Site visit - Docklands Museum (to visit)
- Site visit - Greenwich Heritage Centre
- Special Interest Group Meetup - Interactive Narratives, Southbank
- Conversations - Robert Pratten - TStoryteller

Secondary sources:
- Desktop Research - Google
- Related Books - at Ravensbourne/other libraries
- Greenwich Heritage Centre - Search Room - Scans of Prints

- Films - on Greenwich Peninsula? Enderby Wharf / Community
- Documentaries - on Greenwich Peninsula? Enderby Wharf / Telegraph / Community

Book material:
Glassner, A (2004) Interactive Storytelling – Techniques for 21st Century Fiction, AK Peters, Natick, Massachusetts, USA (TO RECHECK)

Online materials:

[Winston, J 1999, A look at referencing, AAA Educational Services, accessed 20 October 2002, <http://www.aaa.edu.au/aaa.html>.]

Slaney, Malcolm (2013) Visions and Views: Micro Stories and Mega Stories, IEEE MultiMedia (Microsoft)
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=06461362


Theories:
Attention deficit
Need for interaction in museums

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Visit to Greenwich Heritage Centre - Museum and Search Room (9 March 2013)

Notes from Materials in Greenwich Heritage Centre:

I had a think about the kinds of topics that I wanted to cover, these were my thoughts:
History of Greenwich
The Marshes
Maritime Greenwich
Community
Characters/People
Life on the Peninsula
Stories
Buildings of Greenwich
Royal connections
Ships
Stories that are related to Buildings and People

I was provided with a detailed map by the receptionist.
This included a list of places from the map:
Blakely Gun Factory
Draw Dock
Lewis and Stockwell Shipyard
Shrubshall Barge Builders
Delta Metal
Greenwich Linoleum Works
 etc.

I want to look at development on the Marsh from 1800 onwards.

Mills, Mary (1999) Greenwich Marsh, The 300 Years before the Dome, Biddles Ltd

Table of Contents:
Greenwich Marsh
Early Industry on the Marsh
The East Bank
Enderby Family & Wharf
The Atlantic Cable
Coles Child and Coal
Developers
An Engineering Interlude
British Carbolic
Bricks and Mortar
Hard Steel and Big Guns
Small Guns and Ammunition
Small Industry
Ships and Shipbuilding
Sailing Barges
Railways and Docks
Coal and Chemicals
Coal Fired Power
End of the Century
A new Century
The Great War
Rest of the Twentieth Century
Greenwich Marsh in 2000

Foreword
This is a history of the industries of the Greenwich Peninsula – where the Millenium Dome will stand. Industrial history is not boring – it is, after all, about ingenuity and achievement – sometimes it is about criminal and/or eccentric behaviour and , of course, it is about making money. Frequently the events described here have touched everyone’s lives.
This book is about the innovators and inventors who brought their processes to East Greenwich usually in order to manufacture things and to prosper by them. The contribution of generations of ordinary workers and residents is very important because without them the money (which they saw very little of) would not have been made.

From around 1800 riverside areas of the marsh were developed and industry moved in at a rapidly increasing pace until around the time of the Overend Gurney banking crash of 1866. From the 1870s the pace began to slacken and in the twentieth century there was a long slide into service industries which themselves collabpsed as the upriver docks closed in the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1990s we have the Millenium Dome.

The Dome may well mark a change in the fortunes of the area – while, at the same time, it is part of a continuum of change and innovation.

People and Industry:

Mr Wheatley – ran a Horse Omnibus Service, 1860, whilst the area was still rural.
Greenwich Depot – Powder Magazine, up till 1768
Bleaching Business, before 1770 at Dog Kennel Field
Mr Bugsby -
The East bank of the Peninsula was developed soon after the Gunpowder Depot had been closed. This stretch of the river is called ‘Bugsbys Reach’
Who was Bugsby? – was he a robber who hid himself and his swag in an osier bed here?
It has been suggested that Bugsby has something to do with bogeys and bugaboos. Bugsby’s hole was used as a site for gibbeting the bodies of pirates. Was this why there was a watch house on the Marsh?
New East Greenwich, Pilot Pub, 1804, site’s owner George Russell, soapmaker
Beginning with very little he had built up the Old Bargehouse soapworks at Blackfriars until it became the largest soap factory in England. He owned two coal transport ships – colliers – called Nymph and Russell. It may be that he also had a riverside house in Greenwich because in 1796, he was burgled by a gang of thieves who escaped by boat. His residence was a big house at Longlands near Sidcup in Kent. In 1792 he bought some land on the east bank of the Greenwich Peninsula. It was used to make bricks, which were probably sold for the many building developments going on in Greenwich at the time.

In the 1790s Russell’s brickmakers made a hole in the sea wall without permission. Phillip Sharpe, the Wall Reeve (a local official) visited the site where he met Russell’s agent, Thomas Taylor. In reply to his questions Taylor said ‘Damn your eyes, Mr. Sharp if you come here I will poke your teeth and stop your eyes with mud’ and then told a bystander, John Bignall to throw Sharpe off the wall. Which Bignell proceeded to do. Nothing very much seems to havehappened to either Taylor or Bignell for this act of violence – within a year Bignell had got Sharpe’s job as Wall Reeve.

William Pitt, in 1801 part of the site was re-leased to a consortium which included William Pitt, who had recently resigned as Prime Minister. [He was possibly interested in developing a Flour Milll on the site.]

It is usually assumed that The Pilot – the name of the pub in Riverway – refers to pilots who worked on the River but there is a good case to be made out that it derives from a song about William Pitt.

‘When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? No, here’s to the pilot that weathered the storm.’

These verses were composed by George Canning, the future prime minister, and sung by a popular tenor, Charles Dignum, at a dinner on Pitt’s birthday in 1802.

Advert for Sale of East Greenwich Tide Mill, 1842

The Tide Mill
William Johnson had patented a tide mill design in 1801. In 1802 he approached Morden college and asked if he could lease a site for ‘a water corn mill’ – a tide mill with a wheel which could be adjusted to the ebb and flow of the tide.

Richard Trevithick, the ‘Cornish giant’ is one of the pioneers of steam engine development. In 1803 he came of London to promote sales of a new sort of engine. George Russell ordered an eight horsepower high pressure engine from him. The engine had a round boiler seated above a fire enclosed incide a brick box. There was a also a safety valve to let excees steam off into the open air and so prevent accidents.

The steam engine was used to pump water out of the foundations of the new mill.

‘New East Greenwich’ was never really more than a street of house surrounded by some very dirty industry. The inhabitants were the first permanent residents on the Marsh – a community that was to grow and flourish over the next hundred and fifty years.

Enderby Wharf and the Enderby Family

Enderby Wharf
The first factory to be built on the Greenwich Peninsula stood on the site of the 17^th century gunpowder depot. Since then the site has been in almost continuous occupation – and, in effect, in the same ownership. Items made there have had world-wide importance. It is still known by the name of the family who used it over 150 years ago – Enderby Wharf. Beside it on the riverbank stands their home, Enderby House.

Vitriol and Copperas
The gunpowder depot buildings must have stood unused for many years until, around 1800, George Moor opened a ‘vitriol’ works on ‘Crown Land’. It is very likely that ‘Crown Land’…

The Deptford copperas works, opened by Sir Nicholas Crispe, was described to the Royal Society in 1678. There were more works on the east bank of the Ravensbourne (Deptford Creek) in Greenwich – one of which had been associated with Mr. Moore.

Rope
Mr Littlewood opened a Ropewalk nearby. This ropewalk connects Greenwich with one of the most successful ironfounders of the late seventeenth century.

Rope making is sometimes thought of as a very traditional kind of manufacture. Around 1800 is was one of the many processes which were undergoing change and improvement. There was an increasing need for more and better rope – for all the great ships in the navy and the merchant marine. Joseph Huddart has set up a factory in Limehouse to make rope by a revolutionary new method and it may be that some of his ideas were used in Greenwich. Rope is made in long narrow buildings called ‘rope walks’. The ropewalk at Enderby Wharf remained in place for nearly a century and the shape of it can be seen by looking inland from the riverside path through the gates to the Alcatel works.

By the late 1830s the Enderby family had acquired the ropewalk. They had a number of industrial interests but are best known as whalers. Their ships went all round the world and their Greenwich works made the sort of items sold by ships changers – rope, sacking, and so on.

Samuel Enderby had helped to pioneer a process to make white lead in which tannery waste was an important ingredient.

The Enderby family had lived in Greenwich for a long time before they opened their riverside factory. In the 1790s Samuel, Jnr. Had occupied a large and impressive house on Crooms Hill.

The Riverside Factory
The Enderby’s factory consisted of two large waterside buildings where spinning machinery and looms used to make canvas. There were also rooms where hemp was spun and a flax mill on the site. Outdoors were buildings to house a steam engine and boiler, house for the foremen, stables, a smithy, and a joinery.

A feature of the factory was a ‘pitch’ house.  Made with tar.

The first Telegraph Cables
In 1837 the Enderby brothers were approached by William Cooke, the pioneer inventor of the telegraph, who asked for help in developing a specially insulated rope. This was for the earliest experiments in setting up the electric telegraph in which Cooke wanted to establish an electric telegraph across the Thames. It was possibly this cable that was used in the first trials of the telegraph on the railway up Camden Bank between Euston and Camden Town. If so, this means that the earliest effective telegraph cable was made in Greenwich. Later owners of the site made cables that stretched across the world and in so doing followed on work already done by the Enderby family.

In 1845 the Enderbys planned to extend the Greenwich works by building right up to the river’s edge. Before the work began a serious fire left the works in ruins. The factory’s own fire engine fought the blaze. A detachment of Royal Marines was sent to help but there was never very much hope of saving the ropewalk.

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Second visit

Other notable personalities:

Coles Child and Coal
Developers
John Bryan and Howden
John Bethell
Charles Holcombe
The Sea Witch
Willis and Wright

Joshua Taylor Beale, Wapping cabinermaker, design for rotary steam engine

British Carbolic
Soames Family – Soapmaking

Brickmakers
Thomas Taylor
Jabez Hollick
George Crowley Ashby – East Greenwich Portland Cement Works
Sir John  Scott Lillie
William Buckwell
Patent Stone and Henry Bessemer
Hodges, Butler and Dale

Hard Steel & Big Guns
Henry Bessemer
Alexander Theophilus Blakeley, opium connection

Small guns & ammunition
Thomas Robson
Martini Henry

Small Industry
Banning Street and Derwent Street
Pelton Road
Bellot Street
Blackwall Lane
Saw Mills and Mahogany

Ships and Shipbuilding
Wooden Nutmeg
Maudsley Son and Field
The Lady Derby
Halloween and Blackadder
William Courtney
Stockwell and Lewis
Pascoe and Wright

Coal and Chemicals
Frank Hills – Tide Mill
Phoenix Works
John Bethell
Other Chemical companies
Forbes Abbott
Guano and Manure
Briquettes

Coal Fired Power
Gas Works
George Livesey – South Metropolitan Gas Works
East Greenwich Works
Colliers
Electricity
First Power Station

Appleby Engineers – 1870s
Linseed
Linoleum

Redpath Brown – Structural Steel
Delta Metal company– Bronze
Tilbury Dredging and Contracting
Molassine
Shaw Lovell

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1860 George Enderby Cable

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In 1860 George Enderby founded the Enderby Cable Factory, etc.

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Summary of Industries:
Organic materials:
Wool ?
Corn Flour
Hemp
Flax
Molassine
Linoleum
Rope
Wood
Ship Building

Metals and Rocks:
Iron
Steel
BlackSmiths
Joinery
Cable
Gun construction
Ammunitions
Brick
Cement

Energy resources/Byproducts:
Coal and Chemicals
Oil and Gas
Power stations
Soapmaking
Bleaching
Electricity

Milling:
Tide Mill
Saw Mill

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